[Hackage] #216: need a way to specify the foreign libraries a package depends on

[Hackage]

#216: need a way to specify the foreign libraries a package depends on
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  Reporter:  ross at soi.city.ac.uk  |        Owner:          
      Type:  enhancement          |       Status:  reopened
  Priority:  normal               |    Milestone:  _|_     
 Component:  Cabal library        |      Version:  1.2.3.0 
  Severity:  major                |   Resolution:          
  Keywords:                       |   Difficulty:  normal  
Ghcversion:  6.8.2                |     Platform:  Linux   
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Changes (by duncan):

  * milestone:  Cabal-1.6 => _|_

Comment:

 I think the native package conversion tools should be doing this reverse
 dependency lookup, matching headers, C libs or build tools that packages
 need to native packages. It does not scale to ask package authors to know
 what native package name and version is needed on each different system
 (in particular they would have no way to test it).

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/216#comment:10>
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