[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#701059: Bug#701059: haskell-conduit: FTBFS: test failure form doctest adopted

[Joachim Breitner]

Control: reassign -1 haskell-doctest
Control: affect haskell-conduit

Hi,

Am Donnerstag, den 21.02.2013, 13:10 +0900 schrieb Debian ppc64 build
daemon:
> Build test of haskell-conduit fails form ver. 0.5.5 which adopted doctest.
> http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/logs.php?pkg=haskell-conduit&arch=ppc64
> 
> Unfortunately, because transitions of ghc is not applied to experimental repository,
> this error is not checked at present except on ppc64 port.
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=haskell-conduit&suite=experimental
> http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/package.php?p=haskell-conduit&suite=experimental
> 
> So, since it may be a bug peculiar to doctest on ppc64 port, this is reported by "Severity:  important". 

doctest requires GHCi, which is not supported on all architectures. The
cleanest fix would be if doctest would detect this situation and fail
gracefully: https://github.com/sol/doctest-haskell/issues/46

Greetings,
Joachim


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