Bug#809088: ghc-mod: Unable to install ghc-mod

[Sven Bartscher]

Control: severity -1 grave
Control: tags -1 + pending

On Sun, 27 Dec 2015 14:50:45 +0530
Vasudev Kamath <kamathvasudev at gmail.com> wrote:

> Source: ghc-mod
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I'm trying to install ghc-mod but I get following error.
> 
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  ghc-mod : Depends: ghc (< 7.8.4+) but 7.10.3-4.1 is to be installed
>            Recommends: ghc-mod-el (= 5.2.1.2-1) but it is not going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> 
> Checking at the tracker _ It looks like this package is having this
> problem for about ~6 months. I also tried installing package from
> experimental but it also fails with following error.
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  ghc-mod : Depends: ghc (< 7.10.2+) but 7.10.3-4.1 is to be installed
>            Recommends: ghc-mod-el (= 5.3.0.0-3) but it is not going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Thanks for your report!
We recently transitioned to GHC 7.10 in unstable and ghc-mod wasn't
updated for that. There will soon be an upload that can be built with
GHC 7.10, which should fix this problem.

> Probably the right severity for bug is *grave* as this issue renders
> package unusable but I'm not quite sure so I've kept it at
> *important*. Please consider bumping severity if that is the right
> severity.

I bumped the severity, as this indeed makes the package unusable for
almost everyone.

Regards
Sven
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