Hi,
the freeze is nearing and we should decide what we want to get in, and
then concentrate on that. Luckily, most release blockers (such as the
build failures on mips et. al.) have been fixed.
We still need to upload a policy compliant version of
haskell-language-javascript to fix #669156.
Furthermore, there are some FTBFS to investigate:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint=pkg-haskell-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org
Then there is the new platform coming up. It would be great to release
with 2012.2.0.0, as we have mostly upgraded to the newer versions
anyways. Have a look at
http://people.debian.org/~nomeata/platform.html
https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/blob/pre-release/haskell-platform.cabal https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/blob/pre-release/NOTES-2012.2.0.0
For that we’ll have to upgrade HTTP, mtl, network, stm, text,
transformers. With cgi we are ahead of the platform, I’ll query them if
they have a reason not to ship the newest version.
GHC 7.4.2 might be coming up soon, as well:
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2012-May/022365.html
If GHC is really quick with the release and the platform will bless
7.4.2, we should go with that. Otherwise, we should look carefully at
the release notes and stay with 7.4.1 (which has received some testing
in Debian) if we are not missing anything bad.
Any other wishes what needs to get into squeeze?
Besides that, please start going through the bug list and see what bugs
we should fix before the release. Also, as soon as the platform packages
are updated, please refrain from uncoordinated uploads of packages high
in the dependency graph, as these will hold up the transition.
Greetings,
Joachim
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Joachim "nomeata" Breitner
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