[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#649518: Bug#649518: haskell-dpkg: FTBFS against latest libdpkg-dev

[Clint Adams]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 03:29:50PM -0500, Michael Terry wrote:
> I was looking at why haskell-dpkg is FTBFS in Ubuntu and noticed that the
> package is designed for earlier versions of libdpkg.  It assumes that
> 'struct pkginfo' has 'name' and 'next' members.

It has them in dpkg 1.16.1.1 which is in both testing and unstable.

> As far as I can see, nowadays, it has an 'arch_next' member which I assume
> is the analog to 'next'.  Not sure what the analog to 'name' is.
> 
> It should be updated to build against the version of libdpkg in testing.

I think perhaps you are witnessing something Ubuntu did for
multiarch.