>>>>> "David" == David Bremner <da...@tethera.net> writes:

    David> Can you try re-installing emacsen-common, and see if
    David> haskell-mode installs properly then?

That totally fixed it. Now it works.

When I tried to uninstall emacsen-common I initially had this problem
even after I completely purged all my emacs23 packages.

$ sudo apt-get remove --purge emacsen-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 emacs23-bin-common : Depends: emacs23-common (= 23.4+1-4.1) but it is not 
going to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by 
held packages.
shyamal@haskell:~$ dpkg -l | grep emacs
ii  emacs-goodies-el                               35.8                         
 all          Miscellaneous add-ons for Emacs
ii  emacs24                                        24.3+1-2                     
 amd64        GNU Emacs editor (with GTK+ user interface)
ii  emacs24-bin-common                             24.3+1-2                     
 amd64        GNU Emacs editor's shared, architecture dependent files
ii  emacs24-common                                 24.3+1-2                     
 all          GNU Emacs editor's shared, architecture independent infrastructure
ii  emacs24-el                                     24.3+1-2                     
 all          GNU Emacs LISP (.el) files
ii  emacsen-common                                 2.0.5                        
 all          Common facilities for all emacsen


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