On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 08:11:39PM -0400, Scott Talbert wrote:
With the upload of haskell-devscripts 0.16.38 and dh-haskell 0.6.8,
dh-haskell is now in a usable state for wider testing. I know of only one
difference between packages built by dh-haskell and the CDBS build
currently, which is documented here [1]. Clint and/or Ilias, do you know
the history of the GHC-Package control field that is added to -dev
packages? It was added over 10 years ago here [2].
I don't know if anyone is still using it in scripts, but if they are,
those scripts would need to be modified to exclude the extra packages
or dh-haskell's behavior would need to be adjusted.
As for the exact history, I'd guess only Joachim knows that.