[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#757800: haskell-hs-bibutils: FTBFS with bibutils-dev from experimental

[David Bremner]

Source: haskell-hs-bibutils
Version: 4.12-7
Severity: important


Hi Gang;

I'd like to get a more up to date version of bibutils into jessie;
unfortunately the API is a bit unstable, and (unsurprisingly) the
current version of haskell-hs-bibutils in sid FTBFS with the bibutils
in experimental (5.4-1). I had a quick look at the upstream site, and
it looks like the latest version of the bindings is 5.0; this is
probably closer to 5.4. From 5.0 to 5.4 there were a bunch of symbols
added, but only one deleted.  Maybe someone (TM) could prod
hs-bibutils upstream to update the bindings for bibutils 5.4.

I haven't requested a formal transition slot yet; haskell-hs-bibutils
is the only direct build depends for bibutils, but it has further
reverse build depends 

	haskell-citeproc-hs
	haskell-pandoc-citeproc

To reproduce the FTBFS, replace the versioned depends on
libbibutils-dev with (>= 5.4-1) and rebuild in an experimental chroot,
e.g. with

%  sbuild --build-dep-resolver=aptitude -d experimental haskell-hs-bibutils_4.12-7.dsc


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash