[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#574841: cabal-install: Getting "failed to parse output of 'ghc-pkg dump'" on cabal list

[Brandon Simmons]

Package: cabal-install
Version: 0.8.0-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 3.5

The following is the error I see:

    $ cabal list
    cabal: failed to parse output of 'ghc-pkg dump'

And here is the version info:

    $ ghc-pkg list Cabal
    /var/lib/ghc-6.12.1/package.conf.d
       Cabal-1.8.0.2

    $ cabal --version
    cabal-install version 0.6.0
    using version 1.6.0.1 of the Cabal library

I think that cabal-install is not compatible with Cabal-1.8.0.2, but I assume 
this is a dependency problem on ghc-6.12.1?

Let me know if I can provide more information and thanks for the help.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cabal-install depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.10.2-6         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libffi5                 3.0.9-1          Foreign Function Interface library
ii  libgmp3c2               2:4.3.2+dfsg-1   Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cabal-install recommends:
ii  ghc6                          6.12.1-12  GHC - the Glasgow Haskell Compilat

cabal-install suggests no packages.

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