[Fedora-haskell-list] feldspar-language build failures for F17, EL6

[Jens Petersen]

Hi,

> DEBUG util.py:257:  Error: Package:
> ghc-type-level-0.2.4-10.fc17.4.i686 (build)
> DEBUG util.py:257:             Requires: ghc(syb-0.3) = 0b301293b4d755f469c06cc5701b6102

Sorry for not sending out a headsup yet but I built haskell-platform-2011.4
for rawhide recently - as a part of that syb got bumped to 0.3.3.
So ghc-type-level needs to be rebuilt against it.  It rebuilds fine
locally for me here in f17.  If you can rebuild it that would be great
otherwise I will get to it sooner or later.

In fact there is a lot of dependency breakage because 10 HP packages got bumped!
and help is welcome specially if you want to update to cabal2spec-0.25.2.

> DEBUG util.py:257:  Getting requirements for
> ghc-feldspar-language-0.4.0.2-1.el6.src
> DEBUG util.py:257:  Error: No Package found for ghc-Cabal-devel

Right - currently EPEL 6 haskell is a bit behind in packaging
unfortunately... I am planning to backport haskell-platform-2011.4
there too after F16 hopefully.  The main problem blocking that
is that el6 ghc was not fully bootstrapped by accident (current
ghc-rpm-macros catches this so it should not happen again),
which means that rebuilding el6 ghc would break all el6 haskell ABI hashes. :(
Therefore it is just as good to bump version to ghc-7.0.4.

Hope that helps, Jens