[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#676970: Bug#676874: ghc fails to configure after install (update-alternatives priority out of range)

[Joachim Breitner]

Dear Cyril,

Am Donnerstag, den 14.06.2012, 11:04 +0200 schrieb Cyril Brulebois:
> severity 676970 serious
> thanks
> 
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder at gmail.com> (10/06/2012):
> > Cloning and assigning to ghc.  If the way ABI is tracked in ghc is
> > causing valid bugs to be thrown away, that's a problem, in my opinion.
> 
> Indeed. And since the package isn't installable right now, bumping
> severity to serious.

I’m really not sure what this is about. Who is throwing bugs away (and
what does that mean anyways to throw a bug away?)? All I am saying is
that at this point of the release cycle, I am very reluctant to do an
upload of GHC. I’m sure those of the release team who currently manage
the transition will agree that it would be unwise now. I am not saying
that I won’t fix GHC (or rather, adjust GHC to changed semantics in
dpkg) at all; quite contrary I did announce that I’ll do it on the next
upload.

It there a deeper misunderstanding here?

An in case this bug now hinders the migration that mehdi set up for
today: I think this bug can be ignored for wheezy right now, as the dpkg
version in wheezy does _not_ make ghc fail to install. We just should
make sure that before dpkg 1.16.4 it is turned the error into a warning,
e.g. 676874 is closed. (Doesn’t this make 676874 RC?) That fix is
required anyways as wheezy’s dpkg needs to be able to install packages
from squeeze.

Greetings,
Joachim

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