On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Trent W. Buck <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 08:35:31AM +0100, Eric Kow wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:42:15 +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote: > >> Consider the case where a user reports a strange bug that none of > >> us can reproduce. After weeks of discussion, it finally is > >> discovered that zlib 0.5.0 was installed on that user's system, so > >> cabal silently picked -f-zlib. That user was using the internal > >> zlib instead of libHSzlib. > > > > Sold. I'll apply the patch on my next round. If we're wrong, we'll > > just have to pay the price of a messy rollback. > > Datapoint I've just been informed of: > > 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? > > http://bugs.debian.org/538098 "An error occurred. Error was: No bug number " Jason
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