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Nix packages broken #25

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If you have Nix installed and run

nix-shell -p haskellPackages.evdev

It should give a message about broken packages.

Package ‘evdev-2.1.0’ in /nix/store/5ahhafra1z3r1acp7n5lcgdyjbfgihj6-nixpkgs/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix:90322 is marked as broken, refusing to evaluate.
...

If you do

export NIXPKGS_ALLOW_BROKEN=1
nix-shell -p haskellPackages.evdev

It will try to go ahead with the build but will fail on a test

...
Test suite test: RUNNING...
Tests
  Smoke:       FAIL
    Exception: newDevice: does not exist (No such file or directory)
    Use -p '/Smoke/' to rerun this test only.
...

This may not be the correct place to post about such a problem. If so, I apologize, what would be a better place?

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