[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#600691: libghc6-texmath-dev: should link against libghc6-parsec3-dev

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:29:47PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
>Am Dienstag, den 19.10.2010, 11:03 +0200 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
>> Package: libghc6-texmath-dev
>> Version: 0.3.0.2-2+b1
>> Severity: important
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Currently texmath links against parsec2, and highlighting-kate 
>> against parsec3.
>>
>> Recent Pandoc needs both and fails to build when linked against 
>> different versions of parsec, so the wonderful new Pandoc cannot be 
>> packaged for Debian :-(
>>
>> Simply bumping libghc6-texmath build-dependency on 
>> libghc6-parsec3-dev and rebuilding makes the Pandoc build succeed.
>
>I thought this would be no problem as long as pandoc does not use 
>parsec-types from both texmath and highlighting-kate. Does it do that? 
>Did you test building pandoc with cabal (which is more picky about such 
>issues) or regular Setup.hs?

Sorry - I don't know the answers to above questions.  Cc'ing John, who 
should know.


>Do you plan to upload pandoc to unstable or experimental? Is it 
>targeted to squeeze?
>
>(But no objections to doing the bump, the question is whether we want 
>to do it now in unstable, now in experimental, or after the release in 
>unstable)

It is a new upstream release, so unless John can help raise concern 
about security bugs in older releases, I believe it is too late in the 
game for Squeeze.


  - Jonas

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