Bug#857031: cabal-install: Please update backport to 1.24.x

[Sascha Silbe]

Package: cabal-install
Version: 1.22.6.0-2~bpo8+1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

the versions of cabal-install in jessie and jessie-backports contain
severe memory leaks, causing systems with "only" 512MiB RAM (e.g. ARM
based servers, some VMs / virtual servers) to run out of memory during
"cabal update". According to the upstream changelog, the memory leaks
are supposed to be fixed since 1.24.0.0 (see #2826, #2914, #2916), so
an updated backport would be great.

Thanks in advance.

Sascha

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.7
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (100, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages cabal-install depends on:
ii  ghc [libghc-cabal-dev]  7.10.3-6~bpo8+2
ii  libc6                   2.19-18+deb8u7
ii  libffi6                 3.1-2+b2
ii  libgmp10                2:6.0.0+dfsg-6
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

Versions of packages cabal-install recommends:
ii  ghc  7.10.3-6~bpo8+2

cabal-install suggests no packages.

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