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Re: Debian Haskell Platform status and bug reports



On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:39 AM, Don Stewart <dons@galois.com> wrote:
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.

Yeah, but since GHC 6.10.2 is likely to be skipped for debian packaging, how will we get GHC 6.10.2 in haskell platform, if not providing it as a stand-alone package ?
 

-- 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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