Hi, we need a decision about what to do with Haskell on armel. Recall that the Haskell compiler GHC has recently improved its support for (recent forms of) ARM, and a new release (7.10.3) with that is expected real soon. This has been sitting in experimental for far too long, and as soon as 7.10.3 is out proper, I’d really like to upload this to unstable and have a quick (i.e. as quick as mips can build) migration to testing. But in 7.10.3, upstream has (inadvertently) broken support for ARMv4, i.e. armel. See https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11058 for details. It does not look as if we can rely on this getting fixed until the release. So it seems that the only way forward would be to drop Haskell on armel completely from unstable, as anything else will prevent its migration to testing. (It is not sufficient to drop it in testing, as still all packages would be considered as out-of-date by britney.) But this is particularly annoying as bootstrapping Haskell (should support come back eventually) is a slightly annoying and manual task. We do not want to revert the breaking change in Debian, as it fixes other relevant problems with Haskell on arm (well, armhf and arm64 only). Are there any other approaches worth considering? Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: F0FBF51F JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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