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

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On 08/29/2017 11:44 PM, James Clarke wrote:
> 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?

I was discussing this issue at DebConf and I had the idea to try changing the
dependency of haskell-devscripts-minimal on GHC from "ghc" to "ghc:native",
but, unfortunately, dpkg doesn't support these qualifiers in the Depends field.

Adrian

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