On 2014-12-02, at 21:31, Carter Schonwald wrote:

whats an example of such a package?

text-icu. https://github.com/bos/text-icu/pull/9 FWIW, I’m in favour of fixing this at the Cabal level. https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/2207 -- Miëtek

On 02/12/2014 21:43, Miëtek Bak wrote:

On 2014-12-02, at 21:31, Carter Schonwald wrote:

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whats an example of such a package?

text-icu. https://github.com/bos/text-icu/pull/9

FWIW, I’m in favour of fixing this at the Cabal level. https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/2207

I'm actually rather surprised we got away without doing this up to now. Why haven't there been more complaints? Cheers, Simon

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Mikhail Glushenkov < the.dead.shall.rise@gmail.com> wrote:

I've now fixed this issue in Cabal HEAD and also pushed the fix to 1.20 and 1.18 branches. 1.20 and 1.18 point releases should be out soon.

Thanks, Mikhail! Does this imply that package authors can simply advise bug reporters to upgrade cabal-install?

Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 04.12.2014, 01:08 +0100 schrieb Mikhail Glushenkov:

On 4 December 2014 at 00:44, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

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Thanks, Mikhail! Does this imply that package authors can simply advise bug reporters to upgrade cabal-install?

Yes, once the new point releases of Cabal/cabal-install are out (in a week or two, according to Johan).

is the bug in Cabal or cabal-install? If the former, are we going to include a fixed version of Cabal in GHC-7.8.4? Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim “nomeata” Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de • http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Jabber: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de • GPG-Key: 0xF0FBF51F Debian Developer: nomeata@debian.org

Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 04.12.2014, 17:44 +0100 schrieb Mikhail Glushenkov:

On 4 December 2014 at 09:45, Joachim Breitner wrote:

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is the bug in Cabal or cabal-install?

It's in Cabal. So once the new point releases are out, the users will need to run `cabal install cabal-install --constraint="Cabal > 1.20.0.2"`.

in this case, can we get a fixed Cabal in 7.8.4? Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim “nomeata” Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de • http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Jabber: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de • GPG-Key: 0xF0FBF51F Debian Developer: nomeata@debian.org