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authorJoey Hess2018-12-04 14:39:35 -0400
committerJoey Hess2018-12-04 15:18:48 -0400
commitd2a526833f7178a04b00704890cf6ee8c1187618 (patch)
tree72f678d109304890db0d58470d709f5352f68c72 /doc/todo
parent3a9b98f21c3e623006b596dfcf08a079f6212102 (diff)
libghc-stm-dev package won't be in new versions of debian
In Bootstrap, still try to install the package to support bootstrapping to old systems. If it's not available the bootstrapping will still succeed. The added apt-cache check is only to avoid apt complaining when asked to install a not available package. In debian/control, depend on ghc that includes stm, although propellor still supports being used with older versions of ghc Of course this control file is not being used for the package in debian any longer afaik, so something else will be done there.
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diff --git a/doc/todo/haskell-stm_now_bundled_with_ghc_in_Debian_sid.mdwn b/doc/todo/haskell-stm_now_bundled_with_ghc_in_Debian_sid.mdwn
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@@ -3,3 +3,5 @@ haskell-stm is included with ghc and won't be shipped as an installable package
Propellor needs to stop trying to install haskell-stm on Debian buster or newer (and it should also be dropped from debian/control of course, but that can happen on the Debian side).
--spwhitton
+
+> [[done]] --[[Joey]]
diff --git a/doc/todo/haskell-stm_now_bundled_with_ghc_in_Debian_sid/comment_1_dbb0a50414b1ac58cad8584a7c99078e._comment b/doc/todo/haskell-stm_now_bundled_with_ghc_in_Debian_sid/comment_1_dbb0a50414b1ac58cad8584a7c99078e._comment
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@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2018-12-04T18:58:48Z"
+ content="""
+Bootstrap's package installation ignores errors, so if the package is not
+available, it will at worst display an error message and continue.
+
+However, I went ahead and made it check with apt-cache if the package is
+available, to avoid the user seeing an apt error here.
+
+I suppose users of Arch and FreeBSD may want to make similar changes, if
+their package managers also display errors; I don't know if they do or even
+if this change is going to affect those distributions.
+Probably better to let those users deal with it if similar changes are made
+to those distributions, so I'm going to close this.
+"""]]