Build failure: avro

[torgeirsh]

Steps To Reproduce

The package is already marked broken.

Build log

https://hydra.nixos.org/build/245807960/nixlog/1

Additional context

The doctest dependency is constrained to < 0.21, but nixpkgs currently contains 0.22.2. Relaxing the constraint to < 0.23 seems to solve the problem, as the tests run and are green. Is that something that can be patched in nixpkgs, or is a hackage revision or upstream patch a better option?

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[user@system:~]$ nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.8.0-35-generic, Ubuntu, 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat), nobuild`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.18.1`
 - channels(root): `"nixpkgs"`

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[torgeirsh]

I submitted a patch upstream: haskell-works/avro#195

[alexfmpe]

Is that something that can be patched in nixpkgs, or is a hackage revision or upstream patch a better option?

I think the preference order is release > revision > fetchpatch > fix-in-nixpkgs (in this case, doJailbreak)

Thanks for the upstream fix - used it in #328772

[torgeirsh]

Thanks! Once it's merged into the master branch, are additional steps needed to merge it into the release-24.05 branch?

[alexfmpe]

Yop: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-backport-pull-requests