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

[Hiroyuki Yamamoto]

Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 22.02.2013, 21:09 +0900 schrieb Hiroyuki Yamamoto:
>> Joachim Breitner wrote:
>>> Am Donnerstag, den 21.02.2013, 13:10 +0900 schrieb Debian ppc64 build
>>> daemon:
>>>> Build test of haskell-conduit fails form ver. 0.5.5 which adopted doctest.
>>>> http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/logs.php?pkg=haskell-conduit&arch=ppc64
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, because transitions of ghc is not applied to experimental repository,
>>>> this error is not checked at present except on ppc64 port.
>>>> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=haskell-conduit&suite=experimental
>>>> http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/package.php?p=haskell-conduit&suite=experimental
>>>>
>>>> So, since it may be a bug peculiar to doctest on ppc64 port, this is reported by "Severity:  important".
>>>
>>> doctest requires GHCi, which is not supported on all architectures. The
>>> cleanest fix would be if doctest would detect this situation and fail
>>> gracefully: https://github.com/sol/doctest-haskell/issues/46
>>
>> OK. This bug is under jurisdiction of haskell-doctest.
>>
>> Although it can be understood that this bug should be solved at haskell-doctest,
>> if it is taken into consideration that GHCi is supporting architectures only
>> amd64, i386, hurd-i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, powerpc, sparc, powerpcspe,
>> and not supporting official armel, armhd, ia64, mips, mipsel, s390, s390x,
>> and unofficial alpha, hppa, m68k, ppc64, sh4, sparc64, x32,
>> it may be worthy of considering avoiding the test by doctest.
>
> Yes, but it should be avoided centrally, i.e. in doctest itself. No need
> to encode the information “doctest needs GHCi” in every packages that
> uses doctest.
>
>> Since libghc-conduit-dev is build-depended from many other haskell packages,
>> it blocks building many packages now.
>> http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/architecture.php?a=ppc64&suite=experimental
>>
>> If another wishlist BTS to haskell-conduit about this is needed, shall I post it?
>
> no need, as there is no change to conduit required. I’ll just upload the
> new doctest as soon as it is released.

OK.
I'll give-back to build haskell-conduit on ppc64 as soon as new haskell-doctest built.


But it is surely a problem that GHCi's supporting architectures are very few,
only Intel architectures, 32-bit PowerPC, and 32-bit SPARC.

These days, there is a tendency that haskell packages depending on ghc-ghci increase,
it has been really troubled a little.

Regards,
-- 
Hiroyuki Yamamoto
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