[Haskell-cafe] gtk2hs in Ubuntu Gutsy

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 09:31:56AM -0700, Chad Scherrer wrote:
> I just installed the beta release for Ubuntu Gutsy, and I noticed that
> gtk2hs (provided by libghc6-gtk-dev) is still at version 0.9.10.5-1ubuntu1.
> Worse, it's apparently not installable; when I try I get this message:
> 
> libghc6-gtk-dev:
>  Depends: ghc6 (<6.6+) but 6.6.1-2ubuntu2 is to be installed
>  Depends: libghc6-cairo-dev but it is not going to be installed
> 
> Do any of you guys know why this wouldn't include a newer version? Probably
> just an oversight, I'm guessing.

GHC does not have a stable binary interface, so binary libs for 6.6.0
will probably crash if linked by 6.6.1.

Stefan
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