[arch-haskell] Testpack considered for removal, users please speak up

Nicolas Pouillard np at nicolaspouillard.fr
Thu Mar 21 12:08:37 CET 2013


Quoting Magnus Therning (2013-03-20 21:21:17)
> Testpack[1] is being considered for removal.  It's requiring more and
> more patching and the upstream author has not been responsive lately.
> There are no other packages depending on it so there is no impact on
> other packages in [haskell-core].
> 
> If anyone out there is depending on the package please speak up, so we
> can discuss what to do about it.
> 
> I'll leave a week for users to speak up and start the discussion.  If
> I've heard nothing as of 27 March I'll go ahead and remove the
> package.

I was about to say that git-annex depends on it, but I checked and the
latest release got rid of it.

It is still of my long term goals to easily provide git-annex dependencies.
However since this a binary package only these are only build dependencies.



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