Package: cabal-install
Version: 0.14.0.2
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
*** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation?
I installed haskell-platform, which depends on cabal-install
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
I ran `cabal install xmonad-contrib`
* What was the outcome of this action?
cabal: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.
6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not
found (required by cabal)
* What outcome did you expect instead?
I thought the command would run without errors. The cabal-install
package depends on libc6 >= 2.13, so I would not expect it to demand
2.14 if I have 2.13 installed. This may not be under the control of
the package maintainers; if that is so, I would expect the package to
be listed with a dependency of >= 2.14 instead of 2.13.
2.13 is the libc6 currently distributed with wheezy, and there is no
later version available in backports. I can install from jessie as
mentioned [here](http://tobold.org/entry/2014-12-07) but I have
learned with much effort that this will introduce other
irreconcilable conflicts to my system. In my case, I believe the
only way I can run haskell is to dist-upgrade to jessie. Hopefully,
an honest dependency listing on this package will save others the
floundering I went through.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.8
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages cabal-install depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-38+deb7u6
ii libffi5 3.0.10-3
ii libgmp10 2:5.0.5+dfsg-2
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13
Versions of packages cabal-install recommends:
ii ghc 7.4.1-4
cabal-install suggests no packages.
