Hi, Am Dienstag, den 04.03.2008, 15:24 +0000 schrieb Ian Lynagh: > > When trying to do the same with the xmonad-contrib package, I get this > > problem: > > > > update-haskell-control > > Couldn't find a package to depend on for libghc6-x11-xft-dev > > exit: ExitFailure 1 > > make: *** [update-generated-files] Fehler 1 > > > > As you can see on > > http://darcs.nomeata.de/XMonadContrib/xmonad-contrib.cabal > > there is a flaggable dependency on X11-xft that haskell-utils seems to > > take for real. I see in the haskell-utils code that it just takes all > > mentioned dependencies, whether applied or not. > > Right, this isn't handled properly yet. Did the previous haskell-utils > (1.10) work, though? I would expect it to add > Depends: libghc6-x11-xft-dev > making an uninstallable package?
I didn’t use haskell-utils before, so I don’t know (at least in xmonad I need to do some custom stuff in debian/rules and so I just copied some parts of your skripts without using update-debian-haskell-files) > > I also see that there is a special casing for Win32. Would it be > > possible to add more stuff there via an update-haskell-control command > > line flag? > > My plan is to have some way for the package to specify Cabal flags, > possibly with > my_cabal_flags="..." > in the varfile, and then to call the appropriate Cabal function to > flatten them correctly. These same flags would be passed to Setup > configure in debian/rules. That sounds great. > > Or should I just patch out the unused flag from the cabal > > file before running update-haskell-control? > > That sounds like the easiest short-term fix, yeah. Ok, I’ll do that. I’ll upload the updated packages once I see your packages hit the archive. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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