Re: ghc dependencies in sid

[Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Sonntag, den 10.04.2011, 09:33 +0530 schrieb Rustom Mody:
>> Coming back to the topic:
>> Trying to dist-upgrade, aptitude shows an intention to remove:
>>
>> ghc6
>> ghc6-prof
>> libghc6-binary-dev
>> libghc6-parsec2-dev
>> libghc6-parsec2-doc
>> (and some few others not haskell related)
>>
>> If ghc is replacing ghc6 then I guess its fine and I just go ahead?
>
> Yes. It should replace those libghc6-*-dev packages which are already
> rebuild against ghc by the appropriate libghc-*-dev package, due to
> transitional dummy package. So binary and parsec2 have not yet been
> uploaded for ghc-7. If you need those packages, then wait until
> dist-upgrade does not report that it will remove them (and bug us about
> it, so that we upload these sooner than others). If you can live without
> them, just go ahead.

Thanks for the tip.

>
> Anyways, I just uploaded ghc-7.0.3, which requires some library package
> to be rebuild again. Until that happens, more are not installable again
> – just keep trying until you find a moment where the set of installable
> packages suits you :-)

Ooof! its now giving zillions of conflicts and need to download 500M
of packages and what not...
I guess I just stay with testing right now :-)

Thanks again

Rusi