Bug#876240: libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev: unmet dependency libghc-x11-xft-dev-0.3.1-c557c

[Clint Adams]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 12:16:13AM +0200, Sacha Delanoue wrote:
> I tried to install libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev by doing
> `apt install libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev` on an up-to-date 9.1 Debian.
> The install failed with the following information:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev : Depends: libghc-x11-xft-dev-0.3.1-c557c
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> 
> I am no expert in Debian, but a search on the Internet lead me to this:
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/392888 stating that this kind of errors
> in expected in Sid. But since I am using stable I reported it.

Please reply with the output of

dpkg -s libghc-x11-xft-dev | grep -e '^Status' -e '^Version' -e '^Provides'