Re: Status of Haskell Platform on Debian?
Don Stewart wrote:
> What's the status of the platform on debian?
Quite honestly, the Haskell Platform is the least of the worries
for Haskell on Debian.
The main problem is that Haskell on Debian has still not completed
the transition from version 6.8.2 to 6.10.1 to 6.10.3 of ghc.
Some 25-50% of the binary packages still depend on 6.8.2 while
the vast majority of the rest still depend on 6.10.1. For instance
something as fundamental as haskell-network (on which many other
packages depend) is still broken (Debian bug #531658) more than 2
weeks after ghc 6.10.3 was uploaded.
I have been advocating setting up a system like the one used by
the debian-ocaml-maintainer group, which faces exactly the same
binary compatibility problem as Haskell, but manages to complete
well over 90% of the transition within two weeks of a new version
of the ocaml compiler being uploaded.
However, I don't come here to complain, I come here to help. I have
recently applied to become a Debian Maintainer and once I am accepted
I am more than willing to help out however I can.
Erik
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