Re: Debian Haskell Platform status and bug reports

[Don Stewart <dons@galois.com>]

nomeata:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Donnerstag, den 07.05.2009, 17:55 -0500 schrieb John Goerzen:
> > > 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.
> 
> (just some random thoughts:)
> 
> But does that mean that those libraries that are in the haskell platform
> are not going to be update in Debian (unless the haskell platform is
> updated)? Not sure if that suits all our users – some might be waiting
> for the improvements in newer versions.
> 
> We could make libghc6-pkgname-platform-dev packages that follow the
> platform version, and our regular libghc6-pkgname-dev packages keep
> tracking upstream. AFAIK Cabal will be clever enough to pick the right
> one if a users’ program requests the platform version in it’s cabal
> file.

Yes, Arch is going to ship both the platform set, and lots of other
stuff (and versions).
  
> Also, how valuable will be the haskell platform in Debian stable, if
> platform releases new versions every 6 months (which I read somewhere,
> not sure if it’s correct)? If so, then a stable Debian release will have
> an outdated platform most of it’s lifetime.

Is that worse than the current situation?

-- Don