[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#682527: haskell-yesod-routes: FTBFS: Don't use "ghc-ghci" virtual-package-name on Build-Depends

Hiroyuki Yamamoto yama1066 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 23 18:37:41 UTC 2012


(2012-07-24 03:31 +0000), Clint Adams wrote: 
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 02:47:47AM +0900, Hiroyuki Yamamoto wrote:
>> Of course, this bug must be FTBFS because the package which cannot exist 
>> according to the architecture is specified.
> 
> Yes, it will fail to build on an architecture that doesn't have ghc-ghci.
> However, since it would have not succeeded in the past without ghc-ghci,
> this is not an RC issue.

No.
The problem is specifying the package which "cannot exist by any means"
by some architectures as Build-Depends. 

But I understood that this problem originates in the difference in the plan 
of Haskell Policy and Debian Policy. 

Regards,
-- 
Hiroyuki Yamamoto
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