Re: ghc dependencies in sid

[benoit.triquet@gmail.com]

hi

On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 08:24:23AM +0530, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Am Montag, den 07.03.2011, 20:19 +0530 schrieb Rustom Mody:
> >> I tried to upgrade from debian testing to sid and got the message that
> >> ghc and a whole load of libghc**'s would be removed.
> >>
> >> What should I do?
> >
> > from testing to sid this should not necessarily be happening. But I
> > guess by the nature of how interdependent haskell libraries are, apt-get
> > might be likely to consider removing them.
> >
> > Are you using apt-get dist-upgrade?
> >
> > Would it also be removing ghc6?
> >
> > If so, please try again as soon as your mirror has libgmp10-dev_5.0.1
> > +dfsg-6.
> 
> I tried again today going from testing to unstable.
> Again I aptitude wants to remove ghc6 ghc6-prof  libghc6-binary-dev
> libghc6-parsec2-dev libghc6-parsec2-doc.

inside my debian testing install, i have a vserver running unstable and
have been doing that, and...

> And I do not see libgmp10-dev* in synaptic

...this one has been going in and out of unstable. but you don't care,
right now, you want libgmp-dev which conflicts with, replaces and
provides both libgmp3-dev (on which older gcc and ghc6 used to depend)
and libgmp10-dev (on which current gcc and ghc6 depend), so that
regarding gmp, you can have either ghc6 or ghc (you have to choose as
they conflict).

cheers

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