bug#43874: ’corrode’ fails because ’ghc-language-c’ wrong version

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Fri, 09 Oct 2020 at 03:25, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:

> Using Guix a0d4aa2, the package ’corrode’ fails to build because:
>
> Configuring corrode-0.1.0.0...
> Setup.hs: Encountered missing dependencies:
> language-c >=0.4 && <0.6
>
> and the package ’ghc-language-c’ had been updated to 0.8.1 by the commit
> 19b29882878a6558e5f16d587265eb3a0c0cdec6 (Jan. 2017).  So the package is
> probably broken since 3 years.
>
> Four fixes are possible:
>
>  1. add the package ’ghc-language-c@0.5.0’ introduced by
> 2d2388e243d31f00b31b36b8ada76876b6fdacf2.
>  2. turn the package as “private” or at least deprecated.
>  3. move it to guix-past.
>  4. remove it. (Note that upstream is stalling; last commit 4 years
>  ago.)
>
>
> I am in favor of option #4.  Or maybe someone wants to fix?

This option #4 is done by b97f549b14402421fcfb360ddd4cff7de93b9af0. So,
closing!

All the best,
simon