Bug#1125673: ghc: Please do not ship files under /var

[Gioele Barabucci]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:56:34 +0000 Clint Adams <clint at debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 08:37:45PM +0100, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> >Dear GHC maintainers,
> >
> >1105 Haskell packages (all Haskell packages?) install one or more 
> >files in /var/lib/ghc/package.conf.d/.
> >
> >Would it be possible to change the way these packages are built, so 
> >that they do not ship any files under /var, a directory meant to 
> >"[contain] _variable_ data files" (FHS)?
> 
> Kari, can you give us some insight about why they were moved to
> /var in the first place?

Hi Kari, gentle ping. :)

 From conversations in IRC it seems that it would be easy to move these 
files away from /var, but what is missing is to understand (Chesterton's 
Fence-like) for which historical reasons these files are installed there.

Kind regards,

-- 
Gioele Barabucci