As long as GHC has no registerised-powerpc maintainer (which I believe
is still true), and ghc bug #631 remains unfixed
<http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/631> (even if it is fixed in
GHC 6.8, that won't be out in time for Gutsy, but 6.8 will be in time
for gutsy+1), I don't think this bug is going to be fixed.  I think the
best bet is to hope for #631 to be fixed soon, then let the Debian
packagers turn on GHCi for the unregisterised architectures, and (if I
understand the process correctly) Ubuntu can then inherit those changes
from Debian as soon as practicable.

Although, I'm not sure how important "bootstrap issues with [(some
particular)] older ghcs" are as time passes, in debian-ish environments,
(and I'm not using ubuntu anymore either (for one thing, the two
projects' release cycles and practices help Ubuntu be chronically behind
by one on the newest GHC release...))

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/70302
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