Hello, On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 03:48:25PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > […] > > > haskell-pkg-debcheck-exp does not suggest to binNMU it. Is it not > > > installable any more? I can install it here. > > > > Turns out that it was because apt wasn't selecting experimental's ghc as > > a candidate for some reason. I thought the Provides made that work. > > aptitude works. So yeah, it's installable. > > can you elaborate; what did not work as expected? Did you pass -t > experimental to apt-get? No. I assumed that apt would be able to figure it out, since lrucache is only in experimental. It turns out that you also have to explicitly tell apt to choose experimental's ghc. ,---- | (sid-amd64)root@iota:/home/laney# apt-get install !$ | apt-get install libghc-lrucache-dev | […] | Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have | requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable | distribution that some required packages have not yet been created | or been moved out of Incoming. | The following information may help to resolve the situation: | | The following packages have unmet dependencies: | libghc-lrucache-dev : Depends: libghc-base-dev-4.6.0.1-e2868 | Depends: libghc-containers-dev-0.5.0.0-83506 | E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. | (sid-amd64)root@iota:/home/laney# apt-get install libghc-lrucache-dev libghc-base-dev-4.6.0.1-e2868 | […] | Package libghc-base-dev-4.6.0.1-e2868 is a virtual package provided by: | ghc 7.6.2-1 [Not candidate version] | | E: Package 'libghc-base-dev-4.6.0.1-e2868' has no installation candidate | (sid-amd64)root@iota:/home/laney# apt-get install libghc-lrucache-dev ghc/experimental | […] | Selected version '7.6.2-1' (Debian:experimental [amd64]) for 'ghc' | […] | The following NEW packages will be installed: | ghc libbsd-dev libbsd0 libffi-dev libffi5 libghc-lrucache-dev libgmp-dev libgmpxx4ldbl | 0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. | Need to get 47.9 MB of archives. | After this operation, 293 MB of additional disk space will be used. `---- Cheers, -- Iain Lane [ iain@orangesquash.org.uk ] Debian Developer [ laney@debian.org ] Ubuntu Developer [ laney@ubuntu.com ]
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