On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 09:03:18PM +0100, Brent Yorgey wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:52:59AM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Erik Hesselink <hessel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I'm seeing this again, on abstract-deque-0.1.6. Ross, can you fix it > > > again? > > > > > > > Hang on a second. > > > > The reason you're seeing build breakage is that the .cabal files of the > > broken packages were edited in-place without communicating with any of the > > package authors. > > > > I understand that the collective intentions around this were good, but by > > "fixing" things without telling anyone, package maintainers have no way to > > know that anything has happened. Now we are seeing the problem begin to > > recur as people issue new releases that don't incorporate those changes. > > For the record, abstract-deque was neither one of the packages fixed > previously, nor does its .cabal file even contain a test section at > all, much less one with a conditional.
It did a couple of hours ago. > But I > agree with Bryan in principle that we need a more principled approach. Yes, and Cabal is the place to test for this. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
