[xmonad] Fwd: [geekosaur/xmonad-contrib] Run failed: Packdeps - master (0e2d3c1)

[Tony Zorman]

On Sat, Sep 16 2023 19:12, Tomas Janousek wrote:
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> I think it's trying to tell us that our bounds exclude bytestring 0.12 
> which is now available in Hackage. What we need to do is make sure 
> xmonad builds and works with this version, and update the bounds.
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> I'm not keeping up with the Haskell ecosystem these days so I don't know 
> how to actually do that. Last time I checked, bytestring was a "boot" 
> package shipped with GHC, so perhaps we'd need to test with GHC HEAD? Or 
> can you ask cabal to just pull it and build it?

It is a boot library, but even GHC HEAD is only shipping with 0.11.4.0
currently[1], so I think it's fine to ignore this particular warning for
now. I also wish one could disable it somehow, though.

[1]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/commentary/libraries/version-history

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