[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#691600: libghc-warp-dev: does not parse request headers correctly

[Steve McIntyre]

On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 03:27:13PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote:
>Am Sonntag, den 04.11.2012, 13:11 +0100 schrieb Julien Cristau:
>> On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 22:11:42 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
>> > @release-team: There is a reportedly grave bug with haskell-warp, and a
>> > fix is available. Unfortunately, the route of updating testing via
>> > unstable is broken, some uploads aimed for experimental have ended up in
>> > unstable²
>> > 
>> Can't those be reverted?
>
>not easily. Debian does not allow uploading a lower version number, so
>the versions of the reverted packages need to be higher than the
>accidental uploads, either via an epoch or via 2.0~really1.0 tricks. In
>either case, all depending packages need sourceful uploads to adjust
>their build dependency version ranges (which currently exclude the
>accidentally uploaded version and hence all later ones) to include this
>“strange” versions, turning this into a sizable undertaking.

That's a nasty mess there. :-(

Do we have any hope of progress on this RC bug? Otherwise it's
incredibly tempting to push for removal of libghc-warp-dev considering
its tiny popcon and the fact that it has never been in a stable Debian
release...

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