Package: ghc6 Version: 6.10.1+dfsg1-5 Hi,
Most Haskell libraries packaged with haskell-utils do not build with ghc6 from experimental. For example, when I try to build haskell-opengl: $ debian/rules update-generated-files updated-debian-haskell-files update-haskell-control Couldn't find a package to depend on for libghc6-base-dev exit: ExitFailure 1 make: *** [update-generated-files] Erreur 1 The problem is that ghc6 no longer provides libghc6-base-dev. In fact, ghc6 no longer provides anything except for haskell-compiler and ghc. The 'build' recipes in ghc6 debian/rules include a "PACKAGE=`utils/ghc-pkg/ghc-pkg-inplace list -f [...]" line to set provided-devs. There are two problems with this: 1) utils/ghc-pkg/ghc-pkg-inplace has moved to utils/ghc-pkg/install-inplace/bin/ghc-pkg 2) Even though the ghc-pkg-inplace invocation fails, the error is ignored because of the backticks and the build goes on. This bug report is about 1). Changing "ghc-pkg-inplace" to "install-inplace/bin/ghc-pkg" somewhere near line 134 of debian/rules should fix it. The untested patch attached does exactly that. I'll report 2) separately. If there is any other information I can provide that might be helpful, please let me know. Thanks for taking on ghc.
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