[Haskell] Missing docs on Debian?

[Isaac Jones]

Yitzchak Gale <gale at sefer.org> writes:

> Using Debian testing with the ghc6-doc package
> installed (version 6.4-3), 

It looks to me like this isn't the version from "testing" fwiw, but
the version from "unstable".  You might want to make sure that your
versions of ghc and ghc-doc are consistent.

> I just noticed that I only seem to have the "Hierarchical Libraries"
> manual, but not the "User's Guide" nor the "Cabal" docs (nor hslibs
> docs).  Those links are broken on the "index.html" page that was
> installed.

I'm using unstable w/ ghc6-doc version 6.4-4, and this link:
file:///usr/share/doc/ghc6-doc/html/index.html

Seems to give me access to each of the user's guide, hierarchical
libraries, old hierarchical libraries, and cabal docs.

> Did I do something wrong, or is there a reason
> that those were omitted?

First I would just check to see if this file exists:
file:///usr/share/doc/ghc6-doc/html/users_guide/index.html

If not, try upgrading to the new version (maybe Ian can say whether
there's any fix between -3 and -4).  If that doesn't fix it, then you
might start to wonder why you have ghc 6.4 with testing; did you get
this -doc package from the Haskell Unsafe repository, or from the
unstable repository?  Finally, file a bug report against the package
with "reportbug" if none of the above works.


peace,

  isaac