Hi Matthias, I noticed we have a few bound relaxation patches that approximate the cabal behavior of downloading revised package files from hackage. I propose we build a tiny bit more common mechanism into ghc.mk that would copy files/*.cabal files if they exist over into $WRKDIST. Then we can replace a few patches with copies of complete files from hackage that their authors submitted.
If this sounds good I'll figure out which ports we can clean up this way. Thanks Greg -- nest.cx is Gmail hosted, use PGP: https://pgp.key-server.io/0x0B1542BD8DF5A1B0 Fingerprint: 5E2B 2D0E 1E03 2046 BEC3 4D50 0B15 42BD 8DF5 A1B0
