Subject: Re: [bug#36249] [PATCH v2] gnu: ghc-clock: Align version of bootstrap and real package
From: Timothy Sample <[email-masked]>
To: Robert Vollmert <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:09:00 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi Robert,

Robert Vollmert <[email-masked]> writes:

> Fixes https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=36084.
>
> * gnu/packages/haskell-check.scm (ghc-tasty): Import ghc-clock-bootstrap
> directly from (gnu packages haskell).
> (ghc-clock-bootstrap): Move to...
> * gnu/packages/haskell.scm (ghc-clock-bootstrap): Here and update to 0.7.2.
> (ghc-clock): Inherit ghc-clock-bootstrap and build with tests.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/haskell-check.scm | 26 +-------------------------
>  gnu/packages/haskell.scm       | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
>  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
>
> [...]

I ended up turning this around, and basing “ghc-clock-bootstrap” on
“ghc-clock”.  It turns out we already have a bunch of packages that do
the same thing, so all that was needed was to follow those examples.

I committed a similar patch as 71e5d425c9b9e108ebdd06d13de45b56dddd9ef5,
with you as the co-author.  Thanks!

-- Tim