Bug#915646: FTBFS: haddock: internal error: internal: extractDecl

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

control: severity -1 important

I'm downgrading because I pushed a package without the -doc build

G.
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 17:10:19 +0200 Ilias Tsitsimpis <iliastsi at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: haskell-esqueleto
> Version: 2.5.3.git20180402-3
> Severity: serious
> Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
> 
> libghc-esqueleto-doc FTBFS with the following error:
> 
>    haddock: internal error: internal: extractDecl
> 
> This is most probably a Haddock bug[1], fixed in a newer version of GHC.
> 
> On the other hand, haskell-esqueleto is not currently needed, is not
> part of the latest LTS, and Debian uses an unpublished snapshot of the
> code[2]. Should we remove this package from Debian?
> 
> [1] https://github.com/haskell/haddock/issues/775
> [2] https://github.com/bitemyapp/esqueleto/issues/105
> 
> -- 
> Ilias
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