Package: cabal-install Version: 1.24.0.2-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
| $ /usr/bin/cabal install cabal | ghc: fd:12: hGetContents: invalid argument (invalid byte sequence) | ^C | 130 | $ /usr/bin/cabal install cabal --verbose | /usr/bin/alex --version | /usr/bin/gcc -dumpversion | looking for tool haddock near compiler in /usr/bin | found haddock in /usr/bin/haddock | /usr/bin/haddock --version | /usr/bin/happy --version | /usr/bin/hpc version | looking for tool hsc2hs near compiler in /usr/bin | found hsc2hs in /usr/bin/hsc2hs | /usr/bin/hsc2hs --version | /usr/bin/ghc -hide-all-packages -c /tmp/16816927771714636915.c -o /tmp/1957747793424238335.o | ghc: fd:12: hGetContents: invalid argument (invalid byte sequence) | ^C | 130 After some googling, I found [1] and [2], which helped me figure out a work-around: | $ LC_ALL=en_US.iso88591 /usr/bin/cabal install cabal-install | Resolving dependencies... | Downloading Cabal-2.0.0.2... | Downloading base16-bytestring-0.1.1.6... | Configuring base16-bytestring-0.1.1.6... | [..] | Installed cabal-install-2.0.0.0 Obviously this isn't ideal since the user should be able to see error messages in their own language. [1] https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/issues/324 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786781 -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (300, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages cabal-install depends on: ii ghc 8.0.2-10 ii libc6 2.24-17 ii libffi6 3.2.1-6 ii libgmp10 2:6.1.2+dfsg-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 cabal-install recommends no packages. cabal-install suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
