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+/MonadCatchIO-mtl-0.3.0.3.tar.gz
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+# For Haskell Packaging Guidelines see:
+# - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Haskell
+# - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Haskell
+
+%global pkg_name MonadCatchIO-mtl
+
+# common part of summary for all the subpackages
+%global common_summary Monad-transformer for Control.Exception
+
+# main description used for all the subpackages
+%global common_description Provides a monad-transformer version of the \
+@Control.Exception.catch@ function. For this, it defines the \
+@MonadCatchIO@ class, a subset of @MonadIO@. It defines \
+proper instances for most monad transformers in the 'mtl' \
+library.
+
+# Haskell library dependencies (used for buildrequires and devel/prof subpkg requires)
+%global ghc_pkg_deps ghc-mtl-devel, ghc-base-devel, ghc-extensible-exceptions-devel
+
+Name:           ghc-%{pkg_name}
+Version:        0.3.0.3
+Release:        2%{?dist}
+Summary:        %{common_summary}
+
+Group:          System Environment/Libraries
+License:        BSD
+URL:            http://hackage.haskell.org/package/%{pkg_name}
+Source0:        http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/%{pkg_name}/%{version}/%{pkg_name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+# fedora ghc archs:
+ExclusiveArch:  %{ix86} x86_64 ppc alpha sparcv9 ppc64
+BuildRequires:  ghc, ghc-doc, ghc-prof
+# macros for building haskell packages
+BuildRequires:  ghc-rpm-macros
+
+BuildRequires:  hscolour
+
+%{?ghc_pkg_deps:BuildRequires:  %{ghc_pkg_deps}, %(echo %{ghc_pkg_deps} | sed -e "s/\(ghc-[^, ]\+\)-devel/\1-doc,\1-prof/g")}
+
+%description
+%{common_description}
+
+%prep
+%setup -q -n %{pkg_name}-%{version}
+
+%build
+%ghc_lib_build
+
+%install
+
+%ghc_lib_install
+
+# define the devel and prof subpkgs, devel post[un] scripts, and filelists:
+# ghc-MonadCatchIO-mtl{,-devel,-prof}.files
+%ghc_lib_package
+
+%changelog
+* Sun Jun 12 2011 Shakthi Kannan <shakthimaan [AT] fedoraproject DOT org> - 0.3.0.3-2
+- Updated to cabal2spec-0.22.7.
+
+* Fri Jun 10 2011 Shakthi Kannan <shakthimaan [AT] fedoraproject DOT org> - 0.3.0.3-1
+- Updated to upstream 0.3.0.3.
+
+* Sat May 28 2011 Shakthi Kannan <shakthimaan [AT] fedoraproject DOT org> - 0.3.0.2-1
+- Updated to upstream 0.3.0.2.
+
+* Sat Sep 04 2010 Ben Boeckel <mathstuf@gmail.com> - 0.3.0.1-1
+- Initial package
+
+* Sat Sep  4 2010 Fedora Haskell SIG <haskell-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.3.0.1-0
+- initial packaging for Fedora automatically generated by cabal2spec-0.22.2
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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+faf2d7af1f3a2d2bb513316dcefd2606  MonadCatchIO-mtl-0.3.0.3.tar.gz