Hiya, On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 03:48:26PM +0300, Eugene Kirpichov wrote:
Hello. I've noticed that on a fresh Ubuntu VM (10.10) the haskell platform as installed by "sudo apt-get install haskell-platform" can't cabal update out of the box under some proxies, including mine and some of my friends'. That was very annoying for me because I was advertising my haskell app to these friends and they could not easily install it because of this error. I've heard that haskell-platform 2010.2.0.0 fixed this bug (and indeed, on a Windows machine hosting that VM it is installed and the bug does not appear). I'm now testing it on this vm.. Would it be sensible to update the ubuntu package to 2010.2.0.0 then? (I don't know what is the process, but I'm hoping for a response from someone who does)
tl;dr summary: I want to update haskell-platform to 2010.2.0.0 in experimental. I have been thinking about doing this for Ubuntu 11.04. Currently Debian (where Ubuntu gets its Haskell packages from) is frozen for the release of Squeeze sometime in the near future. It is possible, however, to stage updates in experimental. I wonder if it's worth going for 2010.2.0.0 [0] as this ought to be a relatively small update (given that we have 6.12.3 in exp already), or just skipping this entirely and going for 2011.2.0.0 when this is released in February. This will tie in with the GHC7 transition. From my Ubuntu POV, I'm inclined to do the 2010.2.0.0 update in experimental over the holidays, in order to ensure that we move forward before any freezes which may affect my ability to bring in GHC7. Would anyone mind me doing this? Cheers, Iain [0] http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/changelog.html # changes at the bottom
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