Bug 534958 – dev-haskell/deepseq-1.3.0.2: stabilization request

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Pacho Ramos 2015-01-05 18:25:18 UTC]

Is it OK to stabilize =dev-haskell/deepseq-1.3.0.2 ?
If so, please CC all arches which have stable keywords
for older versions of this package.

[Comment 1 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) 2015-01-06 08:45:49 UTC]

deepseq is a bad library :)
It can be stabilized only with dev-lang/ghc-7.8.

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2015-01-06 14:39:17 UTC]

Ah, no problem :)

Wouldn't be better to update the current RDEPEND to ensure that newer ghc is used?
RDEPEND=">=dev-lang/ghc-7.0.1:=
"

[Comment 3 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) 2015-01-06 21:06:30 UTC]

It's a bit harder, because there is a set of ghcs that allow this
particular deepseq (they bundle it), nameily:

CABAL_CORE_LIB_GHC_PV="7.8.1 7.8.2 7.8.3 7.8.3.20141119 7.8.4 7.9.2014*"

We haven't came up with a sane scheme how to handle such stuff in general yet.
but in this particular case we are phasing out explicit deepseq depend in DEPENDS.

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2015-01-07 09:51:26 UTC]

Thanks for the info