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Re: RFH: ghc



Hi,

Am Freitag, den 14.01.2011, 08:55 +1100 schrieb Erik de Castro Lopo:
> > So I suppose this is an RFH message. 
> 
> /me raises hand

looks like we are heading towards a team-maintained GHC. Well, it is
worth a try.

Marco, you have already hacked GHC. Can we count on you with this
maintenance?

> > I can still stick around as a
> > comaintainer but it's a bit too much for myself alone.  What's the
> > Haskell team's preferred VCS?  I prefer darcs myself but I suppose git
> > is good too.
> 
> I prefer darcs over git.

I also think that our current darcs repo scheme (managing only debian/,
using quilt for patches) is quite sufficient.

> > I suppose uploading GHC 7 to unstable is fine already since it won't
> > replace ghc6 packages due to renaming it to ghc.  Just add a ghc6
> > pseudopackage after the release.
> 
> Sounds reasonable.

We will probably have to add such packages also for all libraries. To
avoid unnecessary often changes to debian/control, we could again employ
the haskell-dummy source package to generate all the transitional
packages.


Greetings,
Joachim

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