Re: [PATCH 42/42] gnu: Add darcs.

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 08:08:37PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 09:12:33AM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> >> I also think for reference we should keep the versions of packages it
> >> needs as they are so many. On the other hand hackage keeps the list of
> >> dependencies and versions of those, so... should I send a patch removing
> >> these comments?
> >
> > I think it's better to say how to learn that information. What's there
> > now will become obsolete sooner or later, and it's not clear to me how I
> > could update the information.
> >
> 
> That's just taken directly from hackage and/or the initial error output
> and/or the haskell setup file.
> 
> Should I adjust it? For me the source is 'normal' you find this
> information when you look for the application:
> https://hackage.haskell.org/package/darcs-2.12.4

It looks like hackage provides that version information for many of
their packages. So, I don't think we need to include it in our Darcs
package.