Re: Four packages missing from ghc-doc Provides line, 7.8.20140710-1

[David Fox <ddssff@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> wrote:

Hi,

Am Sonntag, den 13.07.2014, 07:50 -0700 schrieb David Fox:

> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org>
> wrote:

>         Am Freitag, den 11.07.2014, 13:12 -0700 schrieb David Fox:
>
>         > Either way works for me, it is just that I'm getting build errors
>         > because our builder decides it needs to build those packages and then,
>         > because the cabal versions are the same, they collide with
>         > the .haddock files in ghc.
>
>
>         patch welcome :-)
>
>
> I built about 500 different packages with the attached patch.  It just
> removes terminfo, haskeline, and xhtml from the ignored list in
> debian/provided_substvars.

I’ll apply it (building right now) and will revisit the question of
whether these should be package separately some other time.

I'm almost certain now that libtinfo-dev should be a dependency of ghc if it exports terminfo.  If so, I apologize in advance - and after that nice note you left in the changelog!