Re: [Debian-haskell] RFS: haskell-http
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 06:41:41PM +0200, Arjan Oosting wrote:
> >From the changelog:
> >> - Add versioned libghc6-cabal-dev and ghc6 to the Build-Depends to
> >> use Cabal version 1.1.1 or later which introduces a new
> >> installation prefix for libraries.
>
> The versioned depends for ghc6 is to make sure that it uses cabal version
> 1.1.1 or later. When ghc6 6.4.2 with cabal 1.1.4 hits unstable
> libghc6-cabal-dev is not longer neccesary. Thats why i have that
> build-dependency.
But when ghc6 6.4.2 hits unstable, all libghc6-* packages must be
rebuilt anyway.
That's also why you need to tighten up the existing ghc6 deps. See
http://urchin.earth.li/%7Eian/haskell-policy/haskell-policy.html/ch-libraries.html#s-library_impl_deps
for details.
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