On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 04:54:16PM +0100, Eric Kow wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 07:33:11 -0700, Jason Dagit wrote: >>> Systems that track haskell-platform aren't allowed to ship zlib >>> 0.5.1.0 because the current haskell-platform requires the EXACT >>> version 0.5.0. The only exceptions are systems like cabal which >>> allow the same package to have multiple versions available >>> concurrently. >> >> What do you mean "that track haskell-platform"? Are you saying >> that if someone apt-get installs the haskell platform that they are >> forced to have zlib 0.5.0? > > Adding to Jason's question: is it OK to just apply the patch and > hope that the distributions will have found a way out of this in 6 > months?
The patch is already in HEAD, at least. As Joachim says on the Debian list, if there's a legitimate bug in zlib 0.5.0 that Darcs should avoid, it's better to break haskell-platform compatibility than allow compilation with a buggy zlib. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
