postgresql-libpq-configure-0.11-... failed during the configure step

[tomjaguarpaw]

Yesterday I uploaded opaleye-0.10.4.0. Two builds have been attempted, both failed, for example: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/opaleye-0.10.4.0/reports/1

The error is:

Error: cabal: Some packages failed to install:
opaleye-0.10.4.0-KQhmRh8kr3X1liiGgwrlzJ depends on opaleye-0.10.4.0 which
failed to install.
postgresql-libpq-0.11.0.0-GBaHc059NQJ9a4iGXqEfFK depends on
postgresql-libpq-0.11.0.0 which failed to install.
postgresql-libpq-configure-0.11-GQ0HQiY1Xe86n5ML0kWxUT failed during the
configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1

[LaurentRDC]

Same problem with beam-postgres released yesterday

[tomjaguarpaw]

A related discussion: haskellari/postgresql-libpq#66

[echatav]

Same problem for Squeal. Is there a way to update libpq on the Hackage server?

[gbaz]

we're still using debian bullseye for the docbuilder, and the latest libpq-dev in that is still 13 series. i don't think there's an easy way to update libpq without causing package chaos on the docbuilder. seems unfortunate that the postgres version required by the underlying dependencies is set to be higher than necessary, but i don't see a great workaround from our end until we do a full upgrade/transfer of the docbuilder box. until then, docs for such packages will need to be uploaded manually.

[phadej]

seems unfortunate that the postgres version required by the underlying dependencies is set to be higher than necessar

It's not. libpq >=14 is a hard requirement. There is functionality (pipelining) which requires libpq 14. I'm against having conditional APIs in libraries (as it makes building on top tricky).

Just keep doc builder up to date. Ubuntu 22.04 is 3 years old now (includes libpq-14). Debian stable has libpq-15. I think working with three years distro is fair ask. Asking for older is a stretch.

EDIT: for timeline

Bullseye is the development codename for Debian 11. It was superseded by Debian Bookworm on 2023-06-10.

And bulleye had been EOL'd last year (2024-08-14), https://www.debian.org/releases/

[tomjaguarpaw]

Random idea, I don't know how feasible it is: run doc builds in a Docker image, so it can be more easily kept up to date.

[gbaz]

bullseye is LTS until 2016. We'll eventually set up a new docbuilder sometime this year, and certainly consider a docker image or the like. until then, c'est la vie.