[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#703417: Bug#703417: haskell-hfuse: fails to build with GHC 7.6

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:30:57PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 19.03.2013, 11:15 +0000 schrieb Colin Watson:
> > The current haskell-hfuse in experimental fails to build against GHC 7.6
> > (tested in Ubuntu raring) as follows:
> > 
> >   debian/hlibrary.setup build --builddir=dist-ghc
> >   Building HFuse-0.2.4.1...
> >   Preprocessing library HFuse-0.2.4.1...
> >   [1 of 1] Compiling System.Fuse      ( dist-ghc/build/System/Fuse.hs, dist-ghc/build/System/Fuse.o )
> >   
> >   System/Fuse.hsc:73:40:
> >       Module `System.IO.Error' does not export `catch'
> >   make: *** [build-ghc-stamp] Error 1
> > 
> > This has been fixed upstream, although there hasn't been a new release
> > yet.  Here's a patch.
> 
> I’m aware of this, but still waiting for upstream to give a green light
> on the change:
> https://github.com/toothbrush/hfuse/pull/1#issuecomment-13282307

Well, they clearly work in the sense that they make it build again. :-)
How might I test whether they "actually work" in Debian/Ubuntu?
haskell-hfuse seems to have no reverse-dependencies, so it's not
terribly obvious what would break if it were broken, other than its own
build process ...

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]