On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 03:31:56PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Thu July 12 2007 3:05:37 pm Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > > I think you're fixing the symptons here instead of the problems. > > I think that the problem was caused by the postinst failing in the old > package. ghc-pkg was trying to register it against a version of MissingH > that you didn't have, so postinst failed. prerm then failed because the > package wasn't registered. > > I guess we could have a meta-discussion on the Haskell list about ignoring > ghc-pkg errors in prerm. To date I don't think anybody is doing it. > > But this problem should be confined to sid, and then to library transitions. > > What are your thoughts?
Is there some written policy about how Haskell packages should behave? To me it seems each time one of the packages gets upgraded, things always fail to install and break various things. If there is such a thing as a Haskell policy, it might be a good thing that it gets reviewed. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
