Re: Status of Haskell in unstable/testing
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 04:48:07PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Dienstag, den 25.08.2009, 23:51 +0300 schrieb Riku Voipio:
> > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:35:04PM +0300, Kari Pahula wrote:
> > > Please don't remove ghc6 on ia64 from unstable. ghc6 has a
> > > Build-Depends on ghc6 and the current 6.8.2 on ia64 is sufficient for
> > > building 6.12.
> >
> > would dropping ghc6/ia64 from testing be still acceptable? that
> > would potentially allow ghc 6.10.x to testing for the rest of archs.
>
> this question was not answered yet (and I???m not sure if it was directed
> to the release team, the haskell team or the ia64 guys). I???d be in favor
> of that step. It would make
Now that version 6.10.x has stayed out of testing so far, I'd rather
have it stay out too, until 6.12's release, just to make extra sure
that the current version doesn't end up in a release. I've patched
GHC's internal representation of ints to 32 bits and then to 64 bits
in a later version to make .haddock files arch independent and that
has broken Haskell binaries on users' file systems.
It'd mitigate this somewhat if 6.10.x never entered testing. I'll
stick to upstream's way of storing integers within GHC again with
6.12.1.
I suppose I should file a bug about it.
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