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

Apollon Oikonomopoulos apoikos at debian.org
Sat Jul 23 08:06:19 UTC 2016


Dear Joachim,

Thanks for looking into this.

On 09:12 Sat 23 Jul     , Joachim Breitner wrote:
> do you use "cabal install" in Debian packaging scripts? This is 
> usually not required and not recommended.

ganeti does so in its own buildsystem and unfortunately there's little I 
can do about it.

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

Another idea would be to make cabal-install's dependency on 
libghc-cabal-dev a strict equality.

Regards,
Apollon



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