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Hello, mediawiki2latex-7.2 does only compile on amd64, it does not on any other platform. The issue seems to have to do with crypto certificate stuff (libghc-pem-dev,libghc-certificate-dev). The point is that mediawiki2latex actually does not need these crypto stuff. So its likely to do with some general policy that neither I nor Georges Khaznadar who is current uploader of the package understand well enough to resolve the issue. Yours Dirk -------- Original Message --------
Hello Dirk, I uploaded the package for the version 7.2 yesterday. Everything went fine. However I am facing an issue which takes its origin in the new policy of maintainers of GHC packages. The automatic building tool which is used in Debian's compile farm is not able to solve the build-dependencies in order to create on the fly the right environment to build the package. Please take a look at the build report, at https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=mediawiki2latex the rebuild fails on 10 of the supported platforms with the following error message: -----------------8<-------------------- libghc-certificate-dev depends on missing: - libghc-pem-dev-0.1.2-62e18 -----------------8<-------------------- When I dig more deeply into that issue, libghc-pem-dev-0.1.2-62e18 appears to be a virtual package which is provided by the latest release of the package libghc-pem-dev. I had written the build-dependency on the package libghc-pem-dev in mw2l's debian/control file, but I fear that the build tool takes the build-dependencies in alphabetical order; as it deals with the package named libghc-certificate-dev, the other name libghc-pem-dev is not yet registered, and the dependency on virtual libghc-pem-dev-0.1.2-62e18 cannot be solved. I examined the source package for libghc-certificate-dev, and saw that the dependency on libghc-pem-dev-0.1.2-62e18 is something which is automatically calculated by the _expression_ "${haskell:Depends}", which is expanded during the construction of the binary package. Unfortunately, the _expression_ "${haskell:Depends}" is expanded into a list of virtual packages only, which is contrary to other general debian policies. One package should never depend on virtual-only packages, it should depend on alternatives which begin with virtual packages and provide at least one non-virtual package as a fallback. I ignore whom I should send this bug report; I suppose that the "Debian Haskell Group" would be the most relevant structure to mail to; However I beware mailing lists like pkg-haskell-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org since I ignore whetheter somebody in that group of people is reactive enough to reply quickly. Please Dirk, do you know directly or undirectly somebody in the group of Debian Haskell maintainers? I would prefer to send the bug report Cc'ed to such a particular person to be sure that the message will not be treated as mere noise. As a matter of fact, the list of bugs which are pending for this group is quite long: see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=maint&data=""> I wish I had waited 10 days before uploading mediawiki2latex-7.2, so the previous version would have got a chance to enter Debian/Testing without a correction due to the Debian Haskell Group. By the way, Dirk, can you find in the pending bug list whether there is already a bugreport which is already related to our issue? If we cannot get a suitable reply quickly, I think that I can try to patch the package haskell-devscripts, which most probably implements the expansion of ${haskell:depends}. However even if my patch is working, and fed into the DELAYED queue to enforce its upload (if nobody moves during 10 days), such a patch would produce an effect only after a new upload of packages which use those scripts, i.e. after a change in the maintained version or sub-version of ghc libraries. Best regards, Georges. Dirk Hünniger a écrit : > Hi, > there is one more question. If you want to process the package with > automatted tools where can I write down the dependencies, because it > is quite a problem to miss new runtime dependencies. > Yours Dirk > -- Georges KHAZNADAR et Jocelyne FOURNIER 22 rue des mouettes, 59240 Dunkerque France. Téléphone +33 (0)3 28 29 17 70 |