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Re: ghc-mod not built on some architectures due to missing ghc-ghci



On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 12:11:32 -0700
Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Am Freitag, den 27.06.2014, 21:07 +0200 schrieb Sven Bartscher:
> > ghc-mod is currently marked as BD-Uninstallable on armel, armhf, mips,
> > mipsel and s390x. The missing dependency is ghc-ghci.
> > 
> > I don't quite understand that. ghc-ghci is provided by ghc, which is
> > successfully built on all architectures.
> > 
> > Can anyone explain to me, why the buildds pretend that ghc-ghci is
> > missing?
> 
> The virtual package ghc-ghci is only provided by architectures that
> support the interpreter. If you would do "apt-cache show ghc" on s390x,
> it will _not_ Provide ghc-ghci.

Thanks. I will do another upload with the right architectures specified.

> This way we conveniently prevent packages using Template Haskell and
> similar stuff from being attempted on architectures where that is not
> supported.

Regards
Sven

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