package libghc6-highlighting-kate-dev failed to install/upgrade: ghc-pkg: 12: unrecognised field or section: "(<http://kate-editor.org/>),"

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The error in english is:
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Installing libghc6-highlighting-kate-dev (0.2.1-3) ...
Reading package info from "/ usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc6/lib/highlighting-kate-0.2.1/installed-pkg-config" ... ghc-pkg: 12: unrecognised field or section: "(<http://kate-editor.org/>),"
dpkg: error in the processing of libghc6-highlighting-kate-dev (- configure):
  ypodiergasia the post-installation script returned error situation 1
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confirmed in Intrepid. The package is not installable.

black:~# apt-cache policy libghc6-highlighting-kate-dev
libghc6-highlighting-kate-dev:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.2.1-3
  Version table:
     0.2.1-3 0
        500 ftp://ftp.free.fr intrepid/universe Packages

the same problem here;

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libghc6-highlighting-kate-dev is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up libghc6-highlighting-kate-dev (0.2.1-3) ...
Reading package info from "/usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc6/lib/highlighting-kate-0.2.1/installed-pkg-config" ... ghc-pkg: 12: unrecognised field or section: "(<http://kate-editor.org/>),"
dpkg: error processing libghc6-highlighting-kate-dev (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libghc6-highlighting-kate-prof:
 libghc6-highlighting-kate-prof depends on libghc6-highlighting-kate-dev (= 0.2.1-3); however:
  Package libghc6-highlighting-kate-dev is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libghc6-highlighting-kate-prof (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                          Errors were encountered while processing:
 libghc6-highlighting-kate-dev
 libghc6-highlighting-kate-prof
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
sebastian@blackhole:~$ sudo apt-cache policy libghc6-highlighting-kate-dev
libghc6-highlighting-kate-dev:
  Installed: 0.2.1-3
  Candidate: 0.2.1-3
  Version table:
 *** 0.2.1-3 0
        500 http://tr.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
sebastian@blackhole:~$

This bug was fixed in the package highlighting-kate - 0.2.1-3ubuntu1

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highlighting-kate (0.2.1-3ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * highlighting-kate.cabal:
    - adjust description by removing link to http://kate-editor.org, it
      generates a parsing error during configure phase (LP: #274117)
  * libghc6-highlighting-kate-dev depends on libghc6-parsec-dev, fix
    configure error due to missing parsec-2.1.0.0 package.

 -- Luca Falavigna <email address hidden> Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:36:19 +0100