Package: yi
Version: 0.7.0-1
Severity: serious
Tags: upstream patch
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
Dear Maintainer,
I tried building yi and got the following error:
# apt-get build-dep yi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Selected version '0.7.0-1' (unstable) for yi
E: Failed to satisfy Build-Depends dependency for yi: Installed package alex is
too new
#
A downgrade to alex 3.1.0 from testing solved this problem, but alex 3.1.3 from
unstable is prohibited by yi.cabal as well as debian/control.
A new upstream version of yi (0.7.1) has no upper bound on its alex dependency,
so I took the new upstream tarball as well as debian/ from yi-0.7.0-1 and
deleted the upper bound to the alex dependency from debian/control.
The package built successfully, installed cleanly and the resulting yi binary
had no obvious defects.
Since I am new to debian packaging, I append my patch to debian/control
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.14.0-rc6 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages yi depends on:
ii libatk1.0-0 2.10.0-2
ii libc6 2.18-4
ii libcairo2 1.12.16-2
ii libffi6 3.0.13-12
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-5
ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-1
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.30.6-1
ii libghc-yi-dev 0.7.0-1+b5
ii libghc-yi-doc 0.7.0-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.38.2-5
ii libgmp10 2:5.1.3+dfsg-1
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.22-1
ii libncurses5 5.9+20140118-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.2-2
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.2-2
ii libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.36.2-2
ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140118-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1
yi recommends no packages.
yi suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- yi-0.7.0/debian/control 2013-10-15 10:59:09.000000000 +0200
+++ yi-0.7.1/debian/control 2014-03-16 09:03:44.584639000 +0100
@@ -85,7 +85,6 @@
, libghc-xdg-basedir-dev (<< 0.3)
, libghc-xdg-basedir-prof
, alex (>= 3.0.3)
- , alex (<= 3.1.1)
, libghc-gtk-dev
, libghc-gtk-prof
, libghc-vte-dev
