January 2010 - arch-haskell

parsec troubles
by Don Stewart 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

The version of parsec in [extra] is 3.x, which isn't part of the Haskell Platform. This means a lot of stuff doesn't build :/ Are there any apps (darcs??) that need parsec3? If not, we should switch to parsec 2 vegai? -- Don

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Update to 6.12: public status report
by Don Stewart 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/arch-linux-updates-to-ghc-6-12/ Tell your friends :)

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Heads up: QC1 dependencies break some distros
by Don Stewart 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

Hey John, Just a heads up. Some of your packages depend on QuickCheck 1. The Haskell Platform upcoming release will use QuickCheck 2 by default, and we expect most distros to move to QC2. This means for example, that testpack won't build on Arch Linux (since there's nothing that provides QC1), in turning preventing HDBC and lots of other of your packages. Might be a good time to move to QC2 soon - it provides test case shrinking and other handy features. -- Don

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All AUR packages updated to 6.12 depends
by Don Stewart 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

I've updated all the AUR packages to use 6.12 dependencies. (thanks to the archlinux package for scripting support). I'll write up the big announce of the transition, though we do still need a few tweaks to the community and extra package dependencies. http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&arch=i686&repo=&q=haskell&last_upd… So at this point, I'd welcome any build reports of things in AUR that break (set the 'out of date' flag), and CC me. -- Don

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Distribution.ArchLinux maintainer search for the AUR
by Tasha Buckley 30 Jan '10

30 Jan '10

Greetings, The JSON AUR interface now has an msearch method in its API to allow finding all packages by a certain maintainer. So now it's possible to do: http://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php?type=msearch&arg=arch-haskell to get all the packages maintained by the arch-haskell devs. The change required in Distribution.ArchLinux is trivial, but I would be willing to provide a darcs patch if it's somehow needed.

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cabal2arch 0.6.1 now generates bad dependencies
by Tasha Buckley 30 Jan '10

30 Jan '10

Hello again, cabal2arch 0.6.1 seems to only be generating dependencies consisting of ghc and haskell-cabal. This is problematic since ghc 6.12 already includes Distribution.Cabal and a few packages have dependencies besides these two :P This should be pretty easy to fix, but I'm willing to help if it's too boring to contemplate.

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Packages in [extra] and [community] with missing deps
by Don Stewart 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

E.g. http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/haskell-http/ Should depend on haskell-parsec, haskell-mtl and haskell-network (which used to be provided by GHC). The binary package doesn't list those deps though. A modern package build for this package is on AUR. We'll need to double check the others. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33917 Dependencies ghc haskell-array haskell-bytestring haskell-cabal haskell-mtl haskell-network haskell-old-time haskell-parsec Vegai, do you want me to regenerate on AUR all the [extra] and [community] package builds, via cabal2arch, and you can upload them into the binary repos? -- Don

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Missing GHC provides: haddock
by Don Stewart 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

Hey, ghc 6.12 ships with haddock -- so 'haddock' should be in the provides list, shouldn't it? (And does it also ship alex and happy?) -- Don

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Policy document
by Don Stewart 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Arch_Linux/Policy States our new packaging policy: * support the Haskell Platform * keep AUR up to date * use the "provides" mechanism. Please point people at this document should they complain that e.g. [extra] is behind the latest release of something on Hackage. -- Don

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ghc provides bug? utf8-string 0.3.4
by Don Stewart 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Hey, The GHC provides, http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/ghc/repos/extra-x86_64/PKGBUILD say that GHC 6.12 ships with: "haskell-utf8-string=0.3.4" And this is what ghc-pkg reports: $ ghc-pkg list utf8-string /usr/lib/ghc-6.12.1/package.conf.d utf8-string-0.3.4 However, the Arch page says 0.3.6-2 http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/haskell-utf8-string/ Something funny is going on (I think GHC shipped an old version of utf8-string, which will conflict when we install the one from [extra]. Anyone know what to do? -- Don

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