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 libgmp102:6.1.2+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
