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

[Clint Adams]

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?