They said "upstream", not specifically us, and I'd imagine if their
base package is uninstallable they've got problems with GHC itself.
That said, I wonder why the package is available at all if it's
uninstallable. Could you link us to the discussion you mentioned?

On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 5:51 AM Tomas Janousek <tomi@nomi.cz> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Jul 03, 2022 at 06:07:28AM +0300, Eyal Erez wrote:
>
> Does anyone know why the xmonad packages seem to be broken in Debian?
>
> xmonad packaging in Debian is, to the best of my knowledge, unmaintained.
> (I made repeated failed attempts to contact the maintainers over the last years…)
>
> When I tried to enquire in the distros forums (which is a Debian variant)
> they indicated that the problem is upstream. Does anyone know what the
> issue is? Which distro to folks use with xmonad? Where is it best
> supported?
>
> I wonder how exactly could an unmaintained Debian package failing to install on an unspecified Debian derivative be our fault… If anyone makes such claims, they better explain their reasoning.
>
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