Open hvr opened 8 years ago
Odd, 7.8.4 works in my travis: https://travis-ci.org/ddssff/cabal-debian
@ddssff could well be that it picked a different install-plan according to the constraints. Older cabal
versions were more conservative, but cabal new-build
is more liberal as it doesn't suffer the reinstallation-pkgdb-breakage issues anymore.
@hvr - I think 7.6.3 may be a lost cause. Do we need it?
@ddssff it's up to you :-) If you don't want to support it, you can simply tweak the meta-data on Hackage (or I can do it), at e.g. https://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-debian-4.35.5/cabal-debian.cabal/edit
The tested-with field?
@ddssff The tested-with field is not interpreted by cabal's solver (it is however interpreted by https://github.com/hvr/multi-ghc-travis/blob/master/make_travis_yml_2.hs if you want to give it a try).
You'd rather have to edit the build-depends:
and e.g. say base >= 4.7
to denote GHC 7.8 and newer
Oh right, of course.
I just noticed that latest version fails to compile with GHC 7.6.3 due to
and with GHC 7.8.4 due to