[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#701059: Bug#701059: haskell-conduit: FTBFS: test failure form doctest adopted

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, den 02.04.2013, 14:40 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson:
> I don't think this fix will cover armhf, where GHCi is present:
> 
>   $ ghc --info | grep 'Have interpreter'
>    ,("Have interpreter","YES")
> 
> ... but broken:
> 
>   http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7794
> 
> I don't know what would be best here, as I haven't managed to nail down
> a proper fix yet; would it be worth explicitly excluding armhf in
> doctest for now, or would it be better to disable GHCi on armhf until
> it's fixed properly (which will probably require some set of packages to
> be removed on armhf), or something else?

thanks for following up.

I think the cleanest solution would be to disable GHCi if it is broken,
or simply leave things as they are and live with the failed builds until
the problem resolves itself with a new upstream version of GHC. But I
would not mind other opinions on the matter.

Greetings,
Joachim

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