[arch-haskell] Recent change to Hackage causes delay in updates

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 04:13:50PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:13:51AM +0000, SP wrote:
> > What exactly is the unclear problem? Signalling the process of patching,
> > or how the patching process works?
> 
> I'm not sure it's unclear.  The problem is that the 00-index and the
> package now may contain different .cabal files for the same version of
> the package.  This is a feature that apparently has been in the works
> for a while, but I wasn't aware of it until it bit me during an update
> yesterday (pandoc 1.13.1 is in this state on Hackage).
> 
> Cblrepo is written with the assumption that the 00-index and the
> source tar-ball on Hackage *always* contain the same .cabal.  So it
> clearly needs some work before it's back to being usable again.

Silly me!  There's a rather obvious work-around that will allow me
updating while working on a more convenient way to deal with this.

Another update is building as I write this now :)

/M

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