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Bug#667906: transition: libffi6



Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 15.05.2013, 11:24 +0200 schrieb Matthias Klose:
> Am 13.05.2013 17:18, schrieb Joachim Breitner:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > just wondering if we can help with the Debian side of this transition. I 
> > guess that all Haskell packages need to be rebuild in unstable. If you 
> > want, I can schedule the binNMUs and take care of any build failures. Or 
> > are you waiting with rebuilding Haskell for a reason?
> 
> you could help by finally addressing #639015. These dependencies are wrong in
> the first place.

I’m not sure what there is left to be done: The authors of GHC have
indicated that it possibly unsafe to remove these dependencies¹, and the
risk of broken packages at our users installation clearly outweigh the
nuisance of having a bunch of buildds churn on the packages.

¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=639015#57

Greetings,
Joachim

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