[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#676874: Bug#676874: ghc fails to configure after install (update-alternatives priority out of range)

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Sonntag, den 10.06.2012, 03:46 -0400 schrieb Aleksandar Micovic:
> update-alternatives: priority is out of range

this is likely due to a call setting the priority to 8600000600, which
has been there since ghc6_6.4-1 (13 Mar 2005!). Was there a recent
change in update-alternatives that disallows large priorities? Sounds
like this change in dpkg_1.16.4:
  * Check all parsed integers for out of range errors; i.e. that no negative
    values are allowed if not appropriate, and that no overflows occur.
    Closes: #580038
And indeed, the diff at
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=2bf4b48#patch12 confirms that. CC’ing 580038 at b.d.o for that; looks like the fix introduced a regression.

(Not saying it is sane to use that number, but its there and its been
there for long, so I don’t think dpkg should break that so shortly
before the freeze.)

Greetings,
Joachim

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