Thanks! So can I have a list of broken package sorted by Hackage
dependencies, so I know which packages are used the most?
Sounds like there is still work to be done.

Aloha,

RK.


On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 08/21/2014 05:46 AM, Raahul Kumar wrote:
> > How? Amazing well done! But seriously how was this achieved?
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Luca Bruno <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Wow, awesome.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Peter Simons <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Linux/x86_64, zero Haskell builds fail:
> >>>
> >>>   http://hydra.cryp.to/jobset/nixpkgs/haskell-updates
> >>>
> >>> Let's hope that lasts. :-)
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> Peter
> >>>
>
> It was achieved by marking broken things as broken so that they don't
> come up as failures on Hydra all the time. Once the package is fixed
> (upstream or otherwise) it can be built again and we have an extra
> package building.
>
> The approach of marking stuff as broken allows one to see much better
> which packages actually change build status. Users also get a message if
> they try to compile a package marked as broken rather than have them try
> to compile and fail which was horrible user experience.
>
> --
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