Bug#853285: closed by Clint Adams <clint at debian.org> (Bug#853285: fixed in ghc 8.0.2-3)

[James Clarke]

On 29 Aug 2017, at 22:16, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On 08/29/2017 11:12 PM, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
>>> Here's an updated patch for 8.0.2-9.
>> committed (I don't even know how to test it properly) on git, but obviously not uploaded.
> 
> Thanks! You can easily test it by performing a regular GHC testbuild on a porterbox as
> well as a cross-build by just passing "--host=armhf" on the sbuild command line.
> 
> Unfortunately, as previously explained, one still has to preinstall haskell-devscripts-minimal
> in the build chroot used for cross-compiling (this is a limitation of dpkg that I will
> file a bug report for), but at least bootstrapping GHC for a new architecture is much
> easier now.

I believe is this because haskell-devscripts-minimal is arch:all, so any
architecture information does not propagate through. If my understanding is
correct, making haskell-devscripts-minimal an arch:any package and using a
:native Build-Depends on haskell-devscripts-minimal would fix this, but I'm
sure Helmut can clarify?

James