Re: [arch-haskell] How to deal with broken AUR packages?

On 14/01/11 08:53, Magnus Therning wrote:

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 21:24, Peter Simons wrote: [...]

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Furthermore, I wonder whether anyone would like to volunteer to fix the haskell-haskore package? I haven't looked closely at the problem, but it seems to me that the build failure can be remedied by any of the following means:

(1) Contact haskore's author and convince him to release an update that lifts the haskell-event-list<0.1 and haskell-non-negative<0.1 restrictions.

(2) Patch the Cabal file and the PKGBUILD to lift those restrictions.

I will attempt to see if (2) would fix it, and then proceed with (1).

Since the package isn't short-listed for support anymore I won't proceed with this.

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(3) Upload older version of those packages to AUR using different names, and change the haskore package to depend on the older versions instead.

Would anyone of the Arch-Haskell team like to take care of that? Otherwise, I feel that we should offer palmfron to orphan the package so that he can take over maintenance.

That is one option, but let's save that for later.

I've posted a comment on the AUR page offering to orphan it. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus