Bug 1245021 (ghc-mtl-compat)

Summary: Review Request: ghc-mtl-compat - Backported Control.Monad.Except module from mtl
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ben Boeckel <fedora>
Component: Package ReviewAssignee: Jens Petersen <petersen>
Status: CLOSED DEFERRED QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Ben Boeckel 2015-07-21 03:29:10 UTC 
Spec URL: http://benboeckel.net/packaging/ghc-mtl-compat/ghc-mtl-compat.spec
SRPM URL: http://benboeckel.net/packaging/ghc-mtl-compat/ghc-mtl-compat-0.2.1.3-1.fc24.src.rpm
Description:
This package backports the "Control.Monad.Except" module from 'mtl' (if using
'mtl-2.2.0.1' or earlier), which reexports the 'ExceptT' monad transformer and
the 'MonadError' class.

This package should only be used if there is a need to use the
'Control.Monad.Except' module specifically. If you just want the 'mtl' class
instances for 'ExceptT', use 'transformers-compat' instead, since 'mtl-compat'
does nothing but reexport the instances from that package.

Note that unlike how 'mtl-2.2' or later works, the "Control.Monad.Except"
module defined in this package exports all of 'ExceptT''s monad class
instances. Therefore, you may have to declare 'import Control.Monad.Except ()'
at the top of your file to get all of the 'ExceptT' instances in scope.

Fedora Account System Username: mathstuf
Comment 1 Jens Petersen 2015-10-02 11:08:02 UTC 
No objections - just wonder if it can be patched around for now to save a review?
Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2016-07-21 02:33:31 UTC 
ERROR: 'Error 404 downloading http://benboeckel.net/packaging/ghc-mtl-compat/ghc-mtl-compat-0.2.1.3-1.fc24.src.rpm' (logs in /home/petersen/.cache/fedora-review.log)
Comment 3 Ben Boeckel 2016-07-24 04:25:41 UTC 
Spec URL: https://mathstuf.fedorapeople.org/packaging/ghc-mtl-compat/ghc-mtl-compat.spec
SRPM URL: https://mathstuf.fedorapeople.org/packaging/ghc-mtl-compat/ghc-mtl-compat-0.2.1.3-1.fc25.src.rpm
Comment 4 Jens Petersen 2016-07-26 08:49:30 UTC 
This seems to be a dummy (meta) package for ghc-7.10... so I don't think we need it.
Comment 5 Jens Petersen 2016-07-26 08:50:46 UTC 
eg it does not rpmbuild:

Empty %files file /builddir/build/BUILD/mtl-compat-0.2.1.3/ghc-mtl-compat.files
Comment 6 Jens Petersen 2016-07-26 08:53:35 UTC 
This version is too new for F24:

Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing:
mtl >=2.2.1 && <2.3

(slightly amusing)
Comment 7 Jens Petersen 2017-01-05 05:59:03 UTC 
Closing this based on preceding comments.