Hi Mattia, On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 07:08PM, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > I noticed that the packages in the subject are now all somewhat bundled > in ghc, and as such the current separate packages are uninstallable.
Correct. > Is there a reason to keep them, or should they instead be removed? It might be the case that a Haskell library needs a newer version of a package (e.g., libghc-cabal-dev) than the one bundled with ghc. This has happened in the past (stretch) where the ghc package provided libghc-cabal-dev v1.24.0.0, but we also had to ship libghc-cabal-dev v1.24.1.0 for cabal-install (see #843888). That said, I don't see any difference between the aforementioned packages and all other Haskell libraries that are bundled in ghc and thus I don't think we should keep them around just in case they will be needed in the future. If no one else objects, let's remove them, and re-introduce them if/when they are needed again. > I'll happily file removal bugs for them if I don't hear from you :) > (I also don't know how you handle this on dhg_packages) I can take care of the dhg_packages side of things. Cheers, -- Ilias
