[xmonad] Issue 598 in xmonad: Join stackage

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Status: Accepted
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New issue 598 by ***@gmail.com: Join stackage
https://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=598

Currently, xmonad does not build against the packages in the latest
Stackage LTS release, in particular utf8-string-1. It would be great if
xmonad would join stackage so that such problems are detected early. It
also gives you some QA for free: http://www.stackage.org/authors

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Comment #1 on issue 598 by ***@googlemail.com: Join stackage
https://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=598

I just tried bumping the upper bound on the utf8-string dependency to ">=
0.3 && < 1.1" in xmonad.cabal and it appears to build fine against Stackage
LTS 2.7. So I believe this is a one-line fix. A grep of the xmonad source
reveals no use of the deprecated imports that were removed in the bump from
0.3.x to 1.0, and the same holds for XMonadContrib. I'll submit a patch.

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Comment #2 on issue 598 by ***@gmail.com: Join stackage
https://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=598

Awesome, thanks!

Can you also send a pull request to add it to Stackage?
http://www.stackage.org/authors

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Comment #3 on issue 598 by jshholland: Join stackage
https://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=598

Created https://github.com/fpco/stackage/pull/584

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Comment #4 on issue 598 by jshholland: Join stackage
https://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=598

The pull request has been rejected because my patch to increase the bound
on utf8-string hasn't made it to a released Hackage version yet. Is there a
release planned yet? Does this merit a full point release on its own?

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Comment #5 on issue 598 by ***@gmail.com: Join stackage
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With my Debian packaging maintainer hat on: Yes, it does merit a release,
either on its own or a proper new release.

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Comment #6 on issue 598 by ***@gmail.com: Join stackage
https://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=598

Any plans for a point release with this patch?

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Comment #7 on issue 598 by ***@gmail.com: Join stackage
https://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=598

Bump. Still waiting on that release.