[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#676874: Bug#676874: Bug#580038, #676874: ghc fails to configure after install (update-alternatives priority out of range)

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Sonntag, den 10.06.2012, 22:05 +0200 schrieb Guillem Jover:
> > could you, just to not break existing packages, change the code to only
> > print a warning and set the value to INT_MAX? After all the dpkg from
> > wheezy should be able to install packages in squeeze, shoudn’t it?
> 
> Yeah, I guess that can be done, will prepare 1.16.4.3 with this.

Thanks! I’ll reassign the bug to dpkg so that you have something to
close :-)

> > We’ll change the number in ghc, or rather replace the alternative by a
> > regular file, but I’d like to not do such changes so short before the
> > release.
> 
> OTOH I honestly don't see the danger in lowering the priority, even at
> this point in time.

I am always a bit worried about the ABI hashes in haskell packages
changing unexpectedly, requiring rebuilds of many haskell libraries. I
don’t _expect_ that to happen, but I’d rather not risk it in the middle
of the transition. Plus there are the old packages that should, IMHO,
not fail with dpkg.

Greetings,
Joachim

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