On 04.07.2016 15:01, Sven Bartscher wrote: > On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 22:13:47 +0200 Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> > wrote: >> Package: haskell-devscripts >> Version: 0.10.2.3 >> Severity: serious >> Tags: sid stretch >> >> [I was doing a transition (icu 55 to 57), and investigating some >> build failures with link failures, some missing icu55 symbols. I >> didn't find the appropriate haskell package immediately, because it >> neither has a dependency on the icu runtime library or a Built-Using >> attribute ] >> >> Seen with haskell-text-icu, but it looks like there are no >> Built-Using attributes for any C library used for many packages. >> Therefore filing this isssue on a package which is maintained by the >> debian haskell maintainers. Feel free to clone, reassign, ... > > I'm afraid I don't understand what the problem is. > I don't see why our packages would need Build-Using fields on any C > libraries, because AFAIK all our packages that use C libraries are > dynamically linked against them and have the appropriate Depends on > them.
I don't think so. For your library -dev packages you don't have any such dependencies. > Are you at DebConf? If so, maybe we could meet and you explain the > problem to me. yes.