On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 10:02 +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:
Hi
400 Error in upload hoogle-4.0.0.5/hoogle.cabal: Unknown fields: data-dir (line 19) Fields allowed in this section: name, version, cabal-version, build-type, license, license-file, copyright, maintainer, build-depends, stability, homepage, package-url, synopsis, description, category, author, tested-with, data-files, extra-source-files, extra-tmp-files
I think Cabal is right. Both 1.4 and HEAD parse hoogle.cabal without complaint. I suspect that the fix is to recompile the hackage scripts against a more recent Cabal version (ideally the latest stable 1.4.x release).
With the current situation I have just uploaded Hoogle, which worked, even thought I couldn't check the package.
The Hoogle package displays fine: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hoogle-4.0.0.5
But now the main page seems to be down: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html - is that my fault?
No and yes. :-) No of course it's not your fault. The scripts are suppose to validate everything and not fall over. So it'd never be your fault. That said, it's actually a syntax error in catch-0.1.1.cabal which for some reason slipped through the upload checks but with the scripts re-compiled against a newer Cabal now fails with a parse error. That did not get triggered until the following upload when the package index page got re-generated (which involves reading every .cabal file in the archive). Duncan