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Re: ghc dependencies in sid



On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:38 AM,  <benoit.triquet@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...

Sorry I did not understand... Doing what? Am I to install vserver?
(util-vserver?)

>
>> 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).

I do not see libgmp10-dev or libgmp-dev.  Only libgmp3-dev.
There is a libgmp3c2
[This is after changing from testing to  unstable in sources.list and
running aptitude update]

Thanks

Rusi


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