Package: ghc6 Version: 6.8.2-5 Severity: important Hi Ian,
After your upload of GHC 6.8.2-5 the build daemon on powerpc tried to build a couple of packages of mine (haskell-hsql, haskell-uulib and haxml) but failed to build them. In the logs I see the following happen: dh_testdir ghc --make Setup -o setup -package Cabal ghc-6.8.2: timer_create: Invalid argument make: *** [setup] Error 1 dpkg-buildpackage: failure: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2 This will cause FTBFS on a libraries with a Cabal build system. BTW on my AMD64 it still works fine: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/debian/haskell-uulib$ dpkg -s ghc6 | grep Version: Version: 6.8.2-5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/debian/haskell-uulib$ ./debian/rules setup test -d debian/patched || install -d debian/patched dpatch apply-all dpatch cat-all >>patch-stampT mv -f patch-stampT patch-stamp dh_testdir ghc --make Setup -o setup -package Cabal [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( Setup.hs, Setup.o ) Linking setup ... Greetings Arjan -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-reddwarf (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages ghc6 depends on: ii gcc 4:4.2.3-8 The GNU C compiler ii haskell-utils 1.11 Utilities used by the Debian Haske ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgmp3-dev 2:4.2.2+dfsg-3 Multiprecision arithmetic library ii libgmp3c2 2:4.2.2+dfsg-3 Multiprecision arithmetic library ii libncurses5 5.6+20080419-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libreadline5 5.2-3 GNU readline and history libraries ii libreadline5-dev 5.2-3 GNU readline and history libraries ii perl [perl5] 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ghc6 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

