Bug#832144: cabal-install: built inconsistently across different platforms

[Joachim Breitner]

Dear Apollon,



Am Freitag, den 22.07.2016, 22:45 +0300 schrieb Apollon Oikonomopoulos:
> Package: cabal-install
> Version: 1.22.9.0-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> It looks like cabal-install has been built inconsistently on different 
> architectures wrt. libghc-cabal-dev: on amd64 it has been built using 
> libghc-cabal-dev 1.22.8.0, while on i386 (and presumably the rest of the 
> autobuilder archs) it has been built using libghc-cabal-dev 1.22.5.0 
> which is provided by ghc 7.10.
> 
> As a result, cabal install produces different dist/setup-config output 
> depending on the architecture, requiring different versions of 
> libghc-cabal-dev to parse. This currently breaks the build of ganeti on 
> most architectures except amd64[1].

do you use "cabal install" in Debian packaging scripts? This is usually
not required and not recommended.

But yes, we should reliably build cabal-install with libghc-cabal-dev,
I guess.

Greetings,
Joachim

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