Re: Unstable : Version issues with libghc6-regex-base-dev

[trentbuck@gmail.com (Trent W. Buck)]

Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> writes:

>>   libghc6-regex-base-dev:
>>         Depends: ghc6 (< 6.8.2+) but 6.10.1+dfsg1-13 is to be installed
>>         Depends: libghc6-mtl-dev (< 1.1.0.0+) but 1.1.0.2-6 is to be installed
>>
>> What needs to happen here?
>
> Arjan Oosting needs to update his package. Same problem for some of
> his other packages, e.g. haskell-http.  You can file a bug report like
> http://bugs.debian.org/519704 to track this issue, if you want.

Would it be a good idea for someone to bulk create bugs against ALL
packages that need to be updated to work with GHC 6.10?

Benefits:

- All such bugs are consistently named and thus easier to find when
  searching the BTS; and

- The maintainer finds out *now*, rather than in a week or two when
  someone actually tries to install their package;

Problems:

- Someone has to sit down and set up the bulk creation.
- False positives?
- Some packages already have such bugs (e.g. #519704 above).