Package: cabal-install Version: 1.24.0.1-3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
Trying to do: % rm -r -f $HOME/.cabal % cabal install gitit results in: cabal: failed to parse output of 'ghc-pkg dump' Here are the paths/versions to the programs above: % which cabal /usr/bin/cabal % cabal --version cabal-install version 1.24.0.1 compiled using version 1.24.1.0 of the Cabal library % which ghc-pkg /usr/bin/ghc-pkg % ghc-pkg --version GHC package manager version 8.0.1 Thank you for your attention, Stephane Popinet -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_NZ.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_NZ.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages cabal-install depends on: ii ghc [libghc-cabal-dev] 8.0.1-17+b1 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii libffi6 3.2.1-6 ii libgmp10 2:6.1.2+dfsg-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 Versions of packages cabal-install recommends: ii ghc 8.0.1-17+b1 cabal-install suggests no packages. -- no debconf information