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On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 23:11:52 +0200
James David Trotter <james.trotter@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 13 October 2015 at 10:56, Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org> wro=
te:
> >
> > On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:43:24 +0200
> > ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) wrote:
> >
> > > Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org> skribis:
> > >
> > > > Although other ghc packages in haskell.scm include these two output=
s,
> > > > the "out" output very often ends up referencing the "doc" output, so
> > > > both end up installed in practice, so it should be safe to remove t=
his
> > > > field.
> > >
> > > Oh, too bad.  Do you know why the reference is kept?  Does that look
> > > like something that can be fixed?
> >
> > References to the doc directory is often kept in the
> > lib/ghc-7.8.4/package.d/<package>.conf (or similar) file, in the
> > 'haddock-interfaces' and 'haddock-html' fields.  We may be able to just
> > scrub the references, but it may break some user expectations about
> > using 'ghc-pkg' to find the location of documentation for a library.
> >
>=20
> Are you saying that the whole line should be dropped, or only "doc"?

The 'outputs' field is not necessary, so, yes, the
entire line in this case may be dropped.

> > > >> +    (description
> > > >> +     "A portable library of functor and monad transformers, inspi=
red by the
> > > >> +paper \"Functional Programming with Overloading and Higher-Order
> > > >> +Polymorphism\", by Mark P Jones, in Advanced School of Functional=
 Programming,
> > > >> +1995 (http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~mpj/pubs/springschool.html).")
> > > >
> > > > Descriptions can now optionally include texinfo markup, so maybe th=
at
> > > > last could be "@url{http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/...}"
> > >
> > > Better yet:
> > >
> > >   @uref{http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/..., "Functional Programming=E2=80=A6=
"}
> >
> > Much better.
> >
>=20
> OK, I'll make the recommended changes and send a new patch.

Great, thanks!

`~Eric