On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Bryan O'Sullivan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bos@serpentine.com" target="_blank">bos@serpentine.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>The reason you're seeing build breakage is that the .cabal files of the broken packages were edited in-place without communicating with any of the package authors.</div>
<div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Not to flog a dead horse, but:</div><div><br></div><div>Just yesterday we had a communication from someone on the Gentoo Linux packaging team that their checksum validation for the bloomfilter package was failing. This problem arose because of the hand-editing of the package, but confusion arose in the bug report due to misattribution of the source of the error.</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1017">https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1017</a></div><div><br></div><div>Hand-editing uploaded tarballs: just don't do it, kids!</div>