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bug#48701: cabal import parser doesn't support common stanzas
From: |
Philip Munksgaard |
Subject: |
bug#48701: cabal import parser doesn't support common stanzas |
Date: |
Thu, 27 May 2021 15:21:43 +0200 |
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Cyrus-JMAP/3.5.0-alpha0-468-gdb53729b73-fm-20210517.001-gdb53729b |
As far as I can tell, the cabal parser for the `guix import` command
(https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/import/cabal.scm) does
not support common stanzas, as specified in the cabal specification
(https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/3.4/cabal-package.html#common-stanzas).
This means that some packages, like "versions"
(https://hackage.haskell.org/package/versions-5.0.0/src/versions.cabal) and all
depending packages cannot be imported using `guix import hackage versions`:
```
$ guix import hackage versions
Syntax error: unexpected token : common (at line 36, column 0)
Syntax error: unexpected end of input
guix import: error: failed to download cabal file for package 'versions'
```
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