[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#673081: binutils-gold breaks ghc linking stage

Jonathan Nieder jrnieder at gmail.com
Thu May 17 17:58:22 UTC 2012


# undeclared dependency (policy §3.5)
severity 673081 serious
quit

Hi,

Joachim Breitner wrote:

> thanks. I’d like to avoid a ghc upload at this stage of the release
> process, so this change will likely not make it into stable. Do you see
> this as a major problem? 

I think it's a serious bug, but it could be fixed after the release if
you want.  Would it be problematic to make an upload that either
changes the linker used to ld.bfd or (less pleasant) adds a Breaks
against binutils-gold?

Jonathan





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