[arch-haskell] Re: [extra] haskell-parallel

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:44, Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> wrote:
> Hi Xyne,
>
>  > Why does haskell-parallel in [extra] depends on a later version of
>  > haskell-deepseq than what is availabe in [extra]? The package simply
>  > cannot be installed because of this.
>
> on top of this, [extra] ships parallel-3.1.0.1, which is way ahead of
> the version haskell-platform requires, namely parallel-2.2.0.1.
>
> There are other problems in [extra] (such as FS#21615 and FS#21613), all
> of which have been reported a while ago, but still there seems to be no
> discernible progress towards remedying the situation. This is really
> frustrating. I thought Remy volunteered to help maintaining [extra]
> precisely to avoid these kind of problems. So what is going on? What is
> the point of me bothering to maintain AUR, if our base packages in
> [extra] are outright broken for extended periods of time?

Peter, the work you put into AUR is very much appreciated.  It's
unfortunate that [extra] was allowed to enter the state of brokenness
it currently is in, but that doesn't in any way detract from the value
of your work.

Based on a very small sample, it seems some of the packages in [extra]
were updated about 11 days ago.  Some of these have since been
reverted back to the HP versions again.  Is there some easy way to
quickly go through the packages in [extra] to identify which ones
still aren't on the HP version?

/M

-- 
Magnus Therning                        (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4)
magnus＠therning．org          Jabber: magnus＠therning．org
http://therning.org/magnus         identi.ca|twitter: magthe