[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#541203: haskell-edison-api: Fails to install due to broken dependencies

[Iain Lane]

Package: haskell-edison-api
Version: 1.2.1-10
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 3.5

Hello,

I don't quite know what's wrong with this package, hence filing a bug
instead of just fixing it myself...

I've rebuilt it on Karmic and noticed that the dependencies aren't
autogenerated correctly for -dev; namely there should be a dep on
libghc6-mtl-dev that isn't there.

libghc6-edison-api-dev
  Depends: ghc6
  Depends: ghc6
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: libffi5
  Depends: libgmp3c2
  Suggests: <libghc6-edison-api-doc>
  Suggests: libghc6-edison-api-prof
  Recommends: libghc6-edison-core-dev

This means that the package fails to install at the postinst (ghc-pkg register) stage.

I've hardcoded the dependency in Ubuntu for now, but obviously the
correct solution should be found of possible.

Regards,
Iain

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers karmic-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'karmic-updates'), (500, 'karmic-security'), (500, 'karmic-proposed'), (500, 'karmic-backports'), (500, 'karmic')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash