On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 03:03:56PM +0000, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > Am Freitag, den 03.02.2012, 14:37 +0000 schrieb Iain Lane: > > Hiya, > > > > On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 02:27:14PM +0000, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > GHC 7.4.1 is out since today, but I’m tempted to wait for, say, a week > > > or at least a few days so that packages that don’t build any more for > > > some reason get a chance to upload a fixed version to hackage. Or are > > > you keen on saying that Debian has 7.4.1 on the same day? I could do an > > > upload to experimental for that, though ;-) > > > > If we go for this in Debian for Wheezy then I'll probably want to take > > it for Ubuntu Precise too. Feature Freeze there is on Feb 16th so from > > that POV the sooner it's (along with a fixed platform) in Debian the > > better. > > do you really think that we can rebuild all packages and fix all build > problems with 7.4.1 within 13 days? No. I just want to start it before then. Do you expect many packages to be broken by API changes or new versions of shipped libraries? > Also, by fixed, you mean introducing a platform package that refers to > 7.4.1 despite upstream’s specification? Yes, for now. If a new platform comes out before release (of either precise or wheezy) then we can consider it then. I see it's due in May so that should be possible for Debian but not Ubuntu. Ta, -- Iain Lane [ iain@orangesquash.org.uk ] Debian Developer [ laney@debian.org ] Ubuntu Developer [ laney@ubuntu.com ] PhD student [ ial@cs.nott.ac.uk ]
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