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

[Hiroyuki Yamamoto]

(2012-07-24 01:22 +0100), Iain Lane wrote: 
> 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.

Oh, I understand.
"ghc-ghci" virtual-package-name is used purposely in order to prevent 
building by the architecture which has not supported ghci yet by ghc, isn't it.

Sorry,
-- 
Hiroyuki Yamamoto
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