[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#775969: cabal-install: wrong libc6 dependency version

[Patrick Boe]

Package: cabal-install
Version: 0.14.0.2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,
*** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?
   I installed haskell-platform, which depends on cabal-install

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   I ran `cabal install xmonad-contrib`

   * What was the outcome of this action?
   cabal: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.
6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not
   found (required by cabal)

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
   I thought the command would run without errors.  The cabal-install
   package depends on libc6 >= 2.13, so I would not expect it to demand
   2.14 if I have 2.13 installed. This may not be under the control of
   the package maintainers; if that is so, I would expect the package to
   be listed with a dependency of >= 2.14 instead of 2.13.

   2.13 is the libc6 currently distributed with wheezy, and there is no
   later version available in backports. I can install from jessie as
   mentioned [here](http://tobold.org/entry/2014-12-07) but I have
   learned with much effort that this will introduce other
   irreconcilable conflicts to my system.  In my case, I believe the
   only way I can run haskell is to dist-upgrade to jessie. Hopefully,
   an honest dependency listing on this package will save others the
   floundering I went through.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.8
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cabal-install depends on:
ii  libc6     2.13-38+deb7u6
ii  libffi5   3.0.10-3
ii  libgmp10  2:5.0.5+dfsg-2
ii  zlib1g    1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages cabal-install recommends:
ii  ghc  7.4.1-4

cabal-install suggests no packages.
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