Patch 1626: make show dependencies easier to maintain for packagers - Darcs bug tracker

Title	make show dependencies easier to maintain for packagers
Superseder		Nosy List	gh
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Created on 2017-11-08.20:21:56 by gh, last changed 2018-01-21.21:07:10 by gh.

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msg19801 (view)	Author: gh	Date: 2017-11-08.20:21:55
I'm not sure if we should do something about it but today the maintainers of darcs for openbsd disabled "darcs show dependencies" because of its depending on graphviz: https://twitter.com/OpenBSD_ports/status/928343436729532416 See http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/devel/darcs/ Maybe we should add a compile time flag to disable this command? Or try to make it not depend on graphviz?
msg19803 (view)	Author: bfrk	Date: 2017-11-08.22:57:06
I think that a compile time flag would perhaps be a good idea. I am personally not using this command since it rarely gives me any useful information.
msg19804 (view)	Author: gh	Date: 2017-11-09.14:13:21
There is also a purely Haskell implementation of graphviz which we can switch to: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/haphviz
msg19812 (view)	Author: gh	Date: 2017-12-20.15:46:33
Looks like OpenBSD maintainers re-enabled darcs show dependencies, so it seems that this not an urgent matter for Darcs 2.14 (anyway it would be nice if we can depend on haphviz).
msg19813 (view)	Author: gh	Date: 2017-12-20.15:48:32
Forgot to attach the source: https://twitter.com/OpenBSD_ports/status/932767590832750592
msg19828 (view)	Author: gh	Date: 2018-01-21.21:07:10
Indeed this was a false alarm, see https://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2017-December/027261.html . Closing this issue (that I incorrectly created as a patch).

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2017-11-08 20:21:56	gh	create
2017-11-08 22:57:06	bfrk	set	messages: + msg19803
2017-11-09 14:13:22	gh	set	messages: + msg19804
2017-12-20 15:46:34	gh	set	messages: + msg19812
2017-12-20 15:48:32	gh	set	messages: + msg19813
2018-01-21 21:07:10	gh	set	status: needs-screening -> rejected messages: + msg19828