Bug#962973: haskell-readline: Removal notice: broken and unmaintained

2020-06-18 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Wed 17 Jun 2020 at 05:17PM -04, Joey Hess wrote: > It could be converted to haskeline or raw IO, but gnu readline is the > kind of library I think it makes sense to have language bindings to, and > to use the bindings. > > This patch seems to fix the build problem: Gratefully applying

Bug#962973: haskell-readline: Removal notice: broken and unmaintained

2020-06-17 Thread Joey Hess
It could be converted to haskeline or raw IO, but gnu readline is the kind of library I think it makes sense to have language bindings to, and to use the bindings. This patch seems to fix the build problem: --- readline-1.0.3.0.orig/readline.cabal2020-06-17 17:09:11.438264895 -0400 +++

Bug#962973: haskell-readline: Removal notice: broken and unmaintained

2020-06-17 Thread Clint Adams
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 09:10:32PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > keysafe, in experimental, depends on haskell-readline. > > CCing upstream: Joey, do you think it would be possible for keysafe to > migrate to use something maintained? Some options suggested at

Bug#962973: haskell-readline: Removal notice: broken and unmaintained

2020-06-16 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 16 Jun 2020 at 07:55PM +03, Ilias Tsitsimpis wrote: > Source: haskell-readline > Version: 1.0.3.0-9 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > This package seems to be unmaintained (last upstream upload in 2013). > Does not build with GHC 8.8, is not part of

Bug#962973: haskell-readline: Removal notice: broken and unmaintained

2020-06-16 Thread Ilias Tsitsimpis
Source: haskell-readline Version: 1.0.3.0-9 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable This package seems to be unmaintained (last upstream upload in 2013). Does not build with GHC 8.8, is not part of Stackage and has no rev dependencies. I intend to remove this package. -- Ilias