[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] alex package broken

[Ian Lynagh]

Hi Eugene,

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 06:22:50PM +0300, Eugene Kirpichov wrote:
> 
> A couple days ago my friend was installing a cabal package on an
> Ubuntu machine (after sudo apt-get installing haskell-platform), and
> tried to satisfy a dependency on 'alex' by doing 'sudo apt-get install
> alex'.
> 
> Unfortunately this failed:
> alex: /usr/share/alex-2.2/AlexWrapper-strict-bytestring: openFile:
> does not exist (No such file or directory)
> 
> (unfortunately I don't have a more verbose log right now)
> 
> However, doing 'cabal install alex' worked like a charm.
> 
> May this indicate that it is time to update the alex debian package?
> What further information can I provide to help resolve this?

Thanks for the report. I'm CCing the Debian Haskell Group who maintain
alex in Debian now.


Thanks
Ian