Repentinus [1] filed a deletion request for gitit [2]: The package does not conform to the Haskell package guidelines and includes around a hundred third-party dependencies as sources, a number of which are available packaged in the Arch repositories. I have invited the maintainer to fix the issues, but they declined. Repentinus commented on 2021-05-28 03:08

Rufflewind, could you please rewrite this PKGBUILD to conform to the Haskell package guidelines?

Rufflewind commented on 2021-05-28 04:14

@Repentinus This package has a large number of aging dependencies and runs into version conflicts easily. Freezing dependencies was necessary for getting it to build reproducibly. Stack would have been a good choice but Gitit doesn't play well with that either: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=gitit&id=c2b9a66c0e6509bb34...

Let me know if you have an alternative approach for building Gitit that works reliably.

Repentinus commented on 2021-05-28 04:34

Rufflewind, PKGBUILDs support versioned dependencies. Dependencies requiring a specific version not available in the Arch repositories should have separate AUR packages created for them and this PKGBUILD should depend on those.

Rufflewind commented on 2021-05-28 05:21

That is not a feasible approach given the number of dependencies.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Repentinus/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/gitit/