Package: cabal-install Version: 1.22.6.0-2~bpo8+1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
the versions of cabal-install in jessie and jessie-backports contain severe memory leaks, causing systems with "only" 512MiB RAM (e.g. ARM based servers, some VMs / virtual servers) to run out of memory during "cabal update". According to the upstream changelog, the memory leaks are supposed to be fixed since 1.24.0.0 (see #2826, #2914, #2916), so an updated backport would be great. Thanks in advance. Sascha -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.7 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (100, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages cabal-install depends on: ii ghc [libghc-cabal-dev] 7.10.3-6~bpo8+2 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u7 ii libffi6 3.1-2+b2 ii libgmp10 2:6.0.0+dfsg-6 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 Versions of packages cabal-install recommends: ii ghc 7.10.3-6~bpo8+2 cabal-install suggests no packages. -- no debconf information