GNU bug report logs - #54752
import: hackage: `elif` conditionals not supported

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Package: guix;

Reported by: "Philip Munksgaard" <philip <at> munksgaard.me>

Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2022 16:21:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Lars-Dominik Braun <lars <at> 6xq.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Philip Munksgaard" <philip <at> munksgaard.me>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: import: hackage: `elif` conditionals not supported
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 18:19:49 +0200

Since Cabal 2.2 conditional blocks support the `elif` construct [0], but our hackage importer does not currently support such expressions. This causes importing packages like `raaz` [1] to fail.

0: https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cabal-package.html?highlight=elif#conditional-blocks
1: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/raaz
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