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

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi Andreas,

Am Freitag, den 15.06.2012, 11:13 +0200 schrieb Andreas Beckmann:
> severity 676874 serious
> thanks
> 
> On Thursday, 14. June 2012 14:14:43 Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Am Donnerstag, den 14.06.2012, 06:29 -0500 schrieb Jonathan Nieder:
> > > Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > > >                        (Doesn’t this make 676874 RC?)
> > > I think so, yes.  Though it seems both will be fixed so soon that it
> > > is hard for me to care much.
> 
> Raising the severity of #676874 to serious to prevent this version of dpkg 
> migrating to testing, as it will make the whole ghc stack uninstallable (as 
> seen in piuparts tests on sid). Feel free to downgrade it again, if a "fixed" 
> version of ghc entered testing (but I hope for 1.16.4.3 being there first).
> 
> Once one of these bugs is fixed in sid I'll reschedule a full piuparts check 
> of sid to look for more impact of this bug, so please drop me a notice how 
> the new warning looks like.

looks like ghc made it in first (with a hint by luk, so no fair
comparison). I’m not sure if #676874 can be downgraded, though, as it
would still break installing packages from squeeze.

Greetings,
Joachim

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