readline library

[Simon Jakobi]

CC'ing Jan Stolarek who had uploaded the latest releases.

Am Di., 17. Aug. 2021 um 10:30 Uhr schrieb Samuel <samuelrivas at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi,
>
> The readline library sets libraries at haskell.org as maintainer, so
> trying to find if anyone is maintaining it in this list.
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/readline-1.0.3.0
>
> The library doesn't build properly with Cabal 3, though its cabal file doesn't
> limit it to Cabal 2. That makes it fail to build in the latest nix
> packages release. You can see the details in this pull request:
>
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/111985.
>
> This patch seems to be enough to make the library compile again, but I
> haven't found anywhere
> to submit it to fix the library code itself. At the moment the patch
> lives in the nixpkgs repository:
>
> https://github.com/samuelrivas/nixpkgs/blob/30eec30626bd7b8c592dab572e74443627d88a1c/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/patches/readline-fix-for-cabal-3.patch
>
> Is there any upstream copy of the readline library where I can pull
> request this patch?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Samuel
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