Tomas writes:

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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.

Perhaps the people on the forum meant "Debian" by upstream, rather than xmonad itself? I use xmonad on Debian 11 bullseye (stable), Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) and Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) without dependency problems. Maybe, Eyal, you could reveal what distribution you have problems on? Best regards, Adam -- "Shout up!" Adam Sjøgren asjo@koldfront.dk

Eyal writes:

I use a distribution called "Siduction" (linked above). It's a rolling release distro based on the Debian sid branch.

The problem is probably due to a transition to a newer GHC/updating libraries in Debian unstable, then. There is a Haskell group mailing list in Debian you can follow for the current status, more information here: · https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianHaskellGroup Packages being broken once in a while is the nature of Debian unstable. Best regards, Adam -- "I'm a driver, I'm a winner, things are gonna Adam Sjøgren change, I can feel it." asjo@koldfront.dk

Here is the discussion: https://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=7402 I am very close to switching distro at this point. I am wondering which distros supports xmonad well? On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 3:14 PM Brandon Allbery wrote:

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 wrote:

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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…)

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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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