[Fedora-haskell-list] [Bug 657715] New: GHC does not include "ghc" package for dependencies

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Summary: GHC does not include "ghc" package for dependencies

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657715

           Summary: GHC does not include "ghc" package for dependencies
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 14
          Platform: x86_64
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: low
         Component: ghc
        AssignedTo: petersen at redhat.com
        ReportedBy: paul at cogito.org.uk
         QAContact: extras-qa at fedoraproject.org
                CC: petersen at redhat.com, bos at serpentine.com,
                    fedora-haskell-list at redhat.com
    Classification: Fedora


Description of problem:

The GHC platform includes a "ghc" package for Cabal dependency specifications. 
However the Fedora 14 version lacks this package.  This causes "cabal install
<foo>" to fail for any value of <foo> which specifies the version of GHC it
will compile on.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

ghc-6.12.3-7.fc14.x86_64

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. "yum install ghc"
2. "ghc-pkg list"

Actual results:

"ghc" is not included in the list of packages returned by ghc-pkg.

Expected results:

The list should include "ghc".

I checked with Duncan Coutts, one of the Haskell Platform maintainers.  He said
this is definitely a packaging bug.

I've set "Hardware" to be x86_64 because that is what I have, but I would
expect this to occur on other hardware too.

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