Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 08.02.2012, 11:24 +0100 schrieb Joachim Breitner:
Dear interested parties :-),
GHC 7.4.1 started to ship and expose the binary library, version 0.5.0.3. On hackage is binary-0.5.1.0. In Debian, we try to provide one version of each library, so we have to decide:
* Use the version provided by GHC and drop the independent binary package (as we have done with random, for example).
That should not be random (which went the other way, from GHC to a package of its own), but deepseq. It seems that upstream recommends to take this path, so I’ll request removal of the package soon. @DHG: This means that the version constraint on the libghc-binary-* dependencies need to be removed, as ghc provides libghc-binary-dev, but such provides never carry a version number in Debian. The build dependency itself can stay; it doesn't hurt and will prevent failed builds if some future GHC packages stops exposing binary. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata