incorrect dependencies on template-haskell

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 4 October 2011 05:47, Brandon Moore <brandon_m_moore at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> From: Antoine Latter <aslatter at gmail.com>
>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 2, 2011 9:21 PM
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Brandon Moore <brandon_m_moore at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
> ...
>>>  If the package isn't meant to be upgraded, should it be on
>>>  hackage at all?
>>>
>>
>> Using an install of the template-haskell library other than the one
>> GHC was built against will make GHC unhappy - the operations in the
>> library won't type-check against the built-in GHC magic.

I see two possible reasons for having it (along with other boot
libraries) still on Hackage:

1) An archive of previous versions

2) In case some other compiler one day supports TH.

> If so, the package should not be on hackage with dependencies that lead
> cabal-install to try to upgrade it. I see three ways to fix this
>
> [snip]
>
>   3) Fix cabal-install to avoid the package.

If ghc-pkg has a notion of "this is a boot library, don't upgrade me!"
I think this is a viable option; it may also make it easier for distro
packagers to be able to determine deps.

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