Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org Control: retitle -1 RM: various haskell packages [s390x] On 2013-08-14 8:40, Joachim Breitner wrote:
ghc has started to reproducible fail to build from source on s390x, due to some kind of dead-locking of the runtime when lots of processes arespawned (which happens more likely when compiling something large as ghc). Upstream has been notified http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7993 and we tried a few things ourselves, but could not find out the exact cause, and clearly no fix. This will hold up a possible migration of ghc to testing. To unblockthis I’d like the s390x Haskell packags in s390x to be removed. (If it were a normal package, I’d just ask for removal in unstable, but due to the self hosting nature of GHC this would make getting a fixed versionback into the archive much harder.)
Unfortunately, that's what you'll have to do (or wait until ghc is fixed). Aside from the fact that we don't perform manual binary removals from testing:
1) if migration is being blocked by out-of-date packages in unstable, removing binaries from testing won't stop them being out-of-date in unstable, so they still wouldn't be eligible for migration 2) if the s390x binary packages remain in unstable, all that will happen is britney will try re-migrating them on the next run (and keep trying every run until they either migrate or get removed from unstable).
I spare you the pasting of the long lists here; but the list of packagesto be removed should be$ wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/source/Sources.bz2 $ bzcat Sources.bz2 |grep-dctrl -F Build-Depends ghc -s Package -n|sort
Regards, Adam