Re: HEAD vs Hackage status report

On Mon, 2013-09-30 at 08:00 -0700, Johan Tibell wrote:

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:

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On 2013-09-30 at 08:26:10 +0200, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

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Most of the breakage could be fixed by loosening the dependencies on the template-haskell and primitive packages, and here are the rest.

Btw/fyi, as one of the new killer features of Hackage 2, incorrect build-deps were supposed to be fixable easily by editing the .cabal directly (e.g. by a team of devoted Hackage trustees) and thus fix-up the build-deps on Hackage w/o needing to upload a full new release, but see

https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/issues/52

Being one of those trustees and seeing the large number of failures I kinda doubt the viability of this approach. I for one don't feel like manually editiing ~200 package's descriptions manually.

I would not expect many individuals to look at all of hackage. Rather most volunteers would focus on some subset that they're interested in. Look at how distros manage these things. For example Gentoo has teams who look after particular areas (e.g. the Haskell team, the php team etc). Also, automation (but still a human in the loop). -- Duncan Coutts, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/