Bug#822472: various haskell -dev packages are missing Built-Using attributes

[Sven Bartscher]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 22:13:47 +0200 Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org>
wrote:
> Package: haskell-devscripts
> Version: 0.10.2.3
> Severity: serious
> Tags: sid stretch
> 
> [I was doing a transition (icu 55 to 57), and investigating some
> build failures with link failures, some missing icu55 symbols. I
> didn't find the appropriate haskell package immediately, because it
> neither has a dependency on the icu runtime library or a Built-Using
> attribute ]
> 
> Seen with haskell-text-icu, but it looks like there are no
> Built-Using attributes for any C library used for many packages.
> Therefore filing this isssue on a package which is maintained by the
> debian haskell maintainers. Feel free to clone, reassign, ...

I'm afraid I don't understand what the problem is.
I don't see why our packages would need Build-Using fields on any C
libraries, because AFAIK all our packages that use C libraries are
dynamically linked against them and have the appropriate Depends on
them.

Are you at DebConf? If so, maybe we could meet and you explain the
problem to me.

Regards
Sven
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