[Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit

[Ross Paterson]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 05:16:19PM +0100, Simon Hengel wrote:
> CCing: Ross Paterson and Richard G.
> 
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 05:54:44PM +0200, Martijn Schrage wrote:
> > On 18-07-12 17:37, Erik Hesselink wrote:
> > >Hi Martijn,
> > >
> > >Yes, upgrading will obviously fix things (we do use 0.14 on our
> > >development machines)
> > Well, to me it wasn't entirely obvious that upgrading to
> > Cabal-1.10.2.0 fixes the problem for cabal-install-0.12, and I still
> > think this is a good solution for most people that use version
> > 2012.2.0.0 of the platform.
> > 
> > I'd suggest you ask Duncan to patch the hackage repository, and
> > maybe contact the maintainer of HUnit to prevent future problems.
> 
> This also breaks all travis-ci builds.  I think it is critical to
> refrain from using conditionals in test-suite stanzas for some time +
> fix the "broken" release on Hackage.
> 
> Is there a way to make this issue more well-know.  Would a warning on
> the upload page help?

Other packages in hackage with conditionals in test-suites:

fixhs-0.1.4
bloomfilter-1.2.6.10
pqc-0.5
pqc-0.5.1
leksah-server-0.12.0.3
leksah-server-0.12.0.4
leksah-server-0.12.0.5
codemonitor-0.1
codemonitor-0.2