On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, Joachim Breitner wrote:
Libraries that are newer in Debian will stay so, so we won?t be able to support the platform fully. Now we have these options:
What is the long-term plan for this issue - will new instances of it be allowed to arise, or will Debian allow the platform to catch up and then not jump ahead again?
The current proposal for the next platform release (http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2009-August/012355.html) suggests that the regex libraries will catch up with Debian. That would just leave zlib and opengl, and hopefully it wouldn't be long before they resolved themselves too.
Cheers, Ganesh