Bug#676874: ghc fails to configure after install (update-alternatives priority out of range)

2012-06-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
severity 676970 serious thanks Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com (10/06/2012): Cloning and assigning to ghc. If the way ABI is tracked in ghc is causing valid bugs to be thrown away, that's a problem, in my opinion. Indeed. And since the package isn't installable right now, bumping severity

Bug#676874: ghc fails to configure after install (update-alternatives priority out of range)

2012-06-14 Thread Joachim Breitner
Dear Cyril, Am Donnerstag, den 14.06.2012, 11:04 +0200 schrieb Cyril Brulebois: severity 676970 serious thanks Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com (10/06/2012): Cloning and assigning to ghc. If the way ABI is tracked in ghc is causing valid bugs to be thrown away, that's a problem, in my

Bug#676970: Bug#676874: ghc fails to configure after install (update-alternatives priority out of range)

2012-06-14 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 14.06.2012, 11:20 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner: An in case this bug now hinders the migration that mehdi set up for today: I think this bug can be ignored for wheezy right now, as the dpkg version in wheezy does _not_ make ghc fail to install. I adjusted the version

Bug#676874: ghc fails to configure after install (update-alternatives priority out of range)

2012-06-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Joachim Breitner wrote: An in case this bug now hinders the migration that mehdi set up for today: The severity does seem inflated. Luckily it doesn't hinder migration since it is not a new bug (debbugs shows the version in testing as already affected). [...] (Doesn’t

Bug#676874: ghc fails to configure after install (update-alternatives priority out of range)

2012-06-10 Thread Aleksandar Micovic
Package: ghc Version: 7.4.1-3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, When I try to insall ghc, this is the output I get: asm@tara:~$ sudo apt-get install ghc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: ghc-prof ghc-doc haskell-doc

Bug#580038: [Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#676874: ghc fails to configure after install (update-alternatives priority out of range)

2012-06-10 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 10.06.2012, 03:46 -0400 schrieb Aleksandar Micovic: update-alternatives: priority is out of range this is likely due to a call setting the priority to 860600, which has been there since ghc6_6.4-1 (13 Mar 2005!). Was there a recent change in update-alternatives that

Bug#580038: [Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#676874: ghc fails to configure after install (update-alternatives priority out of range)

2012-06-10 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sun, 2012-06-10 at 21:11:04 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: Am Sonntag, den 10.06.2012, 03:46 -0400 schrieb Aleksandar Micovic: update-alternatives: priority is out of range this is likely due to a call setting the priority to 860600, which has been there since ghc6_6.4-1 (13 Mar

Bug#676874: ghc fails to configure after install (update-alternatives priority out of range)

2012-06-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
clone 676874 -1 found 676874 dpkg/1.16.4 reassign -1 ghc 7.4.1-3 found -1 ghc6/6.4-1 retitle -1 ghc: update-alternatives priority out of range quit Joachim Breitner wrote: Am Sonntag, den 10.06.2012, 22:05 +0200 schrieb Guillem Jover: OTOH I honestly don't see the danger in lowering the