Re: Debian Haskell Platform status and bug reports
The platform only specifies 6.10.2 -- i.e that's what we /expect/
distros to supply to be in compliance with the 2009.2.0 spec.
-- Don
alp:
> By the way, which GHC version will be included in the Haskell Platform Debian
> package ?
> Some things rely on GHC 6.10.2 now.
>
> (I'm new to Haskell's debianers part, I'll try to be of help in a close future)
>
> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Don Stewart <dons@galois.com> wrote:
>
> jgoerzen:
> > Don Stewart wrote:
> > > Hey all,
> > >
> > > Can anyone update me on the status of Debian support for the Haskell
> Platform?
> > >
> > > http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/
> >
> > There has been talk on the mailing list about it. We'd probably make
> > haskell-platform a metapackage that depends on all the components. We
> > need to regress some of the components to older versions first, though.
> > I've not been directly involved so someone else can speak better.
>
>
> Yes, that's a concern with Arch Linux too. We had to regress some
> things. We currently don't use a true meta package (i.e. we run the
> Setup.hs for the actual platform .cabal file, which does additional
> sanity checking).
>
> The need to regress things is a bit awkward: likely that'll go away in
> 2009.2.1 (where we bump things if the API is compat.)
>
> > > Secondly, the generic unix installer has a bug report against it on
> > > Debian only:
> > >
> > > http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/32
> > >
> > > Relating to editline not being found.
> > >
> > > Can someone elaborate/close the ticket?
> >
> > I think somebody just tried to build it without installing editline. I
> > made a note on the ticket.
> >
>
> Yep, I've closed that. Thanks!
>
> -- Don
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