Subject: Re: bug#29858: guix import hackage monadplus fails with a syntax error.

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2018 17:58:54 +0100

Hi Alex,

Alex ter Weele <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Here is what I tried:
>
>   $ guix import hackage monadplus
>   Syntax error: unexpected end of input
>   guix import: error: failed to download cabal file for package 'monadplus'
>
> I also tried manually downloading the cabal file and importing that:
>
>   $ guix import hackage -s < ~/Downloads/monadplus.cabal
>   Syntax error: unexpected end of input
>   guix import: error: failed to import cabal file from standard input

Could this be a duplicate of <https://bugs.gnu.org/25138>?

Essentially our Cabal parser doesn’t support the full syntax, which is
why some imports fail.  Would be nice to fix!

Ludo’.