[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#753240: hscolour: FTBFS: hlibrary.setup: Cannot find the program 'hscolour'

[David Suárez]

Source: hscolour
Version: 1.20.3-2
Severity: serious
Tags: jessie sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20140628 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part (hopefully):
>  debian/rules build
> test -x debian/rules
> mkdir -p "."
> /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/buildcore.mk:110: CDBS WARNING:    DEB_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE is deprecated since 0.4.85
> if test ! -e Setup.lhs -a ! -e Setup.hs; then echo "No setup script found!"; exit 1; fi
> for setup in Setup.lhs Setup.hs; do if test -e $setup; then ghc --make $setup -o debian/hlibrary.setup; exit 0; fi; done
> [1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( Setup.hs, Setup.o )
> Linking debian/hlibrary.setup ...
> debian/hlibrary.setup configure --ghc -v2 \
> 	--prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc/lib \
> 	--builddir=dist-ghc \
> 	--haddockdir=/usr/lib/ghc-doc/haddock/hscolour-1.20.3/ --datasubdir=hscolour\
> 	--htmldir=/usr/share/doc/libghc-hscolour-doc/html/ --enable-library-profiling  \
> 	 --with-hscolour=/«PKGBUILDDIR»/hscolour-wrapper  
> hlibrary.setup: Cannot find the program 'hscolour' at
> '/«PKGBUILDDIR»/hscolour-wrapper' or on the path
> Configuring hscolour-1.20.3...
> Dependency base <10: using base-4.6.0.1
> Dependency containers -any: using containers-0.5.0.0
> make: *** [configure-ghc-stamp] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/2014/06/28/hscolour_1.20.3-2_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.