[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#682528: haskell-persistent-template: FTBFS: Don't use "ghc-ghci" virtual-package-name on Build-Depends

[Iain Lane]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:57:48AM +0900, Hiroyuki Yamamoto wrote:
> (2012-07-24 00:50 +0100), Iain Lane wrote: 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:07:38AM +0900, Hiroyuki Yamamoto wrote:
> >> Source: haskell-persistent-template
> >> Version: 0.9.0.2-1
> >> Severity: serious
> >>
> >> Don't use "ghc-ghci" virtual-package-name on Build-Depends,
> >> because it has not been allowed yet by Debian-Policy 
> >> to use the virtual-package-name of "ghc-ghci".
> > 
> > Please stop filing these. There is no bug. The virtual package is an
> > internal Haskell policy issue. The packages do not fail to build.
> > 
> > If you want to get this incoporated into the virtual packages document
> > then try to do that. Do not file several RC bugs without talking to
> > anyone.
> 
> Hmm,
> But Haskell policy seems to have not permeated a packaging system yet.
> 
> e.g.
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=haskell-persistent-template&suite=sid
> 
> Where should I give a bug report?

Nowhere — the point of this virtual package is to prevent building on
architectures which do not have ghci. That's exactly the situation you
see on that page with BD-Uninstallable.

-- 
Iain Lane                                  [ iain at orangesquash.org.uk ]
Debian Developer                                   [ laney at debian.org ]
Ubuntu Developer                                   [ laney at ubuntu.com ]
PhD student                                       [ ial at cs.nott.ac.uk ]
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