A number of HVR's packages need NMU's

[emilypi]

Hi all, the following packages need to be bumped to unblock a large number of packages. We've been trying to reach HVR for over 3 months and it seems life has taken over and he has been somewhat responsive (e.g. with cryptohash-sha256), but not been as responsive as we need in order to move things along.

We need to coordinate some NMU's. The following packages need help:

• regex-posix has had an open PR and multiple pings over months here: https://github.com/haskell-hvr/regex-posix/pull/8. HVR has not responded when prompted about this.
• regex-tdfa has the same deal, PR outstanding here: https://github.com/haskell-hvr/regex-tdfa/pull/17
• regex-base has the same here: https://github.com/haskell-hvr/regex-base/pull/8 and here: https://github.com/haskell-hvr/regex-base/pull/10, with relevant issues here: https://github.com/haskell-hvr/regex-base/issues/7 and here: https://github.com/haskell-hvr/regex-base/issues/9
• text-short has been out of date for close to 4 months. I logged an issue here: https://github.com/emilypi/base64/issues/30, and submitted the fix to HVR here: https://github.com/haskell-hvr/text-short/pull/19, and asked for + was granted co-maintenance via email. However, he has not granted Hackage maintainership priveleges yet.
• uuid and uuid-types are roughly 3 years behind on their releases: https://github.com/haskell-hvr/uuid/issues/46, and @bodigrim + @lehins have done the work to bring the package up to date with no visible response.

There may be more on to this list, but I'd like to get started planning and tracking for these ASAP per the NMU policy.

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Progress:

Maintenance

• [x] regex-posix - maintainers added
• [x] regex-base - maintainers added
• [x] regex-tdfa - maintainers added
• [x] text-short - co-maintainer added
• [x] uuid - taken over by @phadej
• [x] uuid-types - taken over by @phadej
• [x] zlib - co-maintainers added
• [x] tar - co-maintainers added

Needed Revisions/Releases:

• [x] regex-posix
• [x] regex-base
• [x] regex-tdfa
• [x] text-short - @hvr has revised bounds
• [x] uuid - @phadej has done a release
• [x] uuid-types - @phadej has done a release
• [x] zlib - @emilypi has done a release

[angerman]

package	ghc-9.0.1	hackage latest as of today
ghc	9.0.1	8.10.2
base	4.15.0.0	4.14.1.0
ghc-boot-th	9.0.1	8.10.2
ghc-boot	9.0.1	8.8.3
ghc-prim	0.7.0	0.6.1
ghci	9.0.1	8.10.2
hpc	0.6.1.0	0.6.0.3
integer-gmp	1.1	1.0.3.0
libiserv	9.0.1	-
template-haskell	2.17.0.0	2.16.0.0

[bergmark]

I saw that Oleg asked to take over maintainership of uuid*, so i'd say we should let that play out. Perhaps hackage admins can expedite it? Would it be possible to find maintainers for the regex packages as well?

I have been toying with the proposal of revising/dropping NMUs as a trustee thing as it requires a lot more effort than other things we do. i.e. it would at least feel like less work for me to personally take over maintainership and do the uploads.

[emilypi]

Great news on uuid, uuid-types, and hashable, thanks @phadej! HVR poked his head out this morning to mention that he updated the bounds on text-short, so that one is solved for now. We'll continue discussing plans to co-maintain in private. This leaves us with the regex libraries. Personally i'm fine if @bergmark or some combination of @bergmark + others here take on co-maintenance. I'm happy to help move things along as well.

[sjakobi]

This leaves us with the regex libraries. Personally i'm fine if @bergmark or some combination of @bergmark + others here take on co-maintenance.

@andreasabel offered to help as a co-maintainer in https://github.com/haskell-hvr/regex-base/issues/9.

[emilypi]

Ah! right, yes @andreasabel as well.

[Bodigrim]

Couple more:

• hslogger needs a revision for bytestring-0.11. PR https://github.com/haskell-hvr/hslogger/pull/60 is open for two months, multiple pings, no reaction.
• cassava needs a revision for bytestring-0.11. https://github.com/haskell-hvr/cassava/pull/190 is open for a month.

@bergmark could you possibly make revisions for these?

[emilypi]

Good news:

HVR popped up and made @phadej, @andreasabel and I maintainers of regex-*, and @phadej in particular a maintainer of uuid and uuid-types. We'll have things unblocked shortly, and then we can address any lingering revisions.

[andreasabel]

I get to work on regex-*; @hvr invited me into the team.

[bergmark]

Great stuff. I think we can close this then?

[andreasabel]

Er, I also need upload permissions on hackage for the regex-* family.

[andreasabel]

@bergmark Please keep this open until the hackage permissions have also been granted.

[bergmark]

@Bodigrim sorry i missed your request for hslogger & cassava! I've revised hslogger. For cassava, i may be a bit outdated on how cabal-install deals with flags now but I'm not able to get it compiling, getting

error: **INVARIANT BROKEN** Detected invalid combination of `text-short` and `bytestring` versions. Please verify the `pre-bytestring-0.10-4` flag-logic in the .cabal file wasn't elided.

It works with stack, but I'm afraid adding the revision could cause compilation issues for cabal-install.

[Bodigrim]

For cassava, i may be a bit outdated on how cabal-install deals with flags now but I'm not able to get it compiling

I think your package index is outdated and does not include recently revised text-short-0.1.3.

  if flag(bytestring--LT-0_10_4)
    build-depends: bytestring <  0.10.4
                 , bytestring-builder >= 0.10.8 && < 0.11
  else
    build-depends: bytestring >= 0.10.4
                 , text-short == 0.1.*

I presume you've been running something like cabal build --constraint 'bytestring >= 0.11' --allow-newer 'cassava:bytestring'. If there is no text-short available to satisfy bytestring-0.11 (which was the case before text-short-0.1.3 got revised), in order to find a build plan cabal is forced to enable bytestring--LT-0_10_4 - with catastrophic consequences.

@bergmark could you please cabal update and give it one more go?

[bergmark]

That wasn't it, still not exactly sure what is going on but i managed to solve it by using local versions of regex-base and regex-posix with patched bytestring upper bounds! So it will be fine once they are updated as well. http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cassava-0.5.2.0/revisions/

[emilypi]

@bergmark good to hear.

Just an update: @Bodigrim and I have been granted co-maintainership of Cabal, cabal-install, zlib, and tar as of today. An RC is out for zlib, and we'll have one out shortly for regex-* as needed, once HVR approves of the PR prep.

[andreasabel]

I released regex-base-0.94.0.1. Getting to work on regex-posix.

[andreasabel]

regex-posix got its revision: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/regex-posix-0.96.0.0/revisions/

[emilypi]

If we don't see a review from @phadej or @hvr on the existing zlib-0.6.2.3-rc in the next 2-3 days, I'll just do a release if everyone's okay with that.

[andreasabel]

regex-tdfa has also been revised

[emilypi]

zlib-0.6.2.3 is now live!

We did it! Thank you for the hustle everyone. Hopefully we are now in a place where this doesn't happen again because support maintainers are now in place for the relevant packages. Thank you to everyone who helped us get things moving again!

@bergmark now we can close the issue 😄

[bergmark]

great!

[phadej]

Can cassava's base bound be relaxed as well?

[bergmark]

@phadej i did http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cassava-0.5.2.0/revisions/ previously, did i miss something?

[phadej]

I don't see base in your revision. only bytestring and QuickCheck.

[phadej]

I made revision for cassava-0.5.2.0 allowing base-4.15: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/cassava-0.5.2.0/revisions/