On Thu, 10 Jun 2021, at 15:02, zimoun wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 at 14:22, Philip Munksgaard <phi...@munksgaard.me> wrote: > > > If I understand you correctly, you're saying that this issue is an instance > > of bug#44115 because we get a backtrace instead of a nice error. I agree > > that the backtrace is ugly, but in this case the error shouldn't happen at > > all because all the recursively imported packages exist. > > Your point is that parsing the Cabal file of the package "versions" > fails. Mine is, somehow, instead of an ugly backtrace (whatever the > reason), the error for "guix import hackage futhark -r" should be: > > Syntax error: unexpected token : common (at line 36, column 0) > Syntax error: unexpected end of input > guix import: error: échec du téléchargement du fichier cabal du > paquet « versions » > > as it is for "guix import hackage versions". >
Good point, I agree that would be nicer. The backtrace was not my concern when submitting this bug, but it doesn't really matter as long as both issues are fixed :-)
