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Re: GHC arm64 porting



Hi,

Am Samstag, den 05.04.2014, 10:34 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner:
> Am Samstag, den 05.04.2014, 09:03 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson:
> > On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 05:35:57PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > I notice as a result that our darcs GHC repository is at 7.8, though,
> > > and my understanding of darcs is that a 7.6 maintenance branch (e.g.
> > > for arm64 porting) would need to be pushed to a different directory,
> > > maybe just s/ghc/ghc-7.6/.  Do you have any preferences?
> > 
> > I was ready to upload 7.6.3-9, but I couldn't work out how to get at
> > something in darcs I could commit to; 7.6.3-8 seems to be tagged but I
> > don't know darcs well enough to figure out how or whether I can add
> > commits just from that point.  I've attached the debdiff.  I'm happy to
> > break that down and commit it myself if somebody tells me how, or it's
> > simple enough that somebody who knows how could just commit and tag it
> > directly.
> 
> You can do it interactively. Keep running
> $ darcs obliterate
> and say "yes" to everything but "tagged 7.6.3-8". You need to iterate
> that, darcs seems to stop asking after tags (dunno why), until it only
> offers you that patch. Then you have reached that tag.
> 
> Alternatively
> $ darcs get ~/debian/pkg-haskell/repos/ghc --tag 7.6.3-8
> 
> Then you can work as usual. You will, however, have to merge again
> before pushing, which requires manual conflict resolution in
> debian/changelog.
> 
> If this sounds too annoying to learn let me know and I’ll do it.

I guess that was the case, so I did in. Unfortunately, the merging hit a
bug in darcs. So for now I did:

> We could also start having separate repositories (= branches, in Darcs)
> on alioth for unstable and experimental, as we used to have. At least
> for ghc; I don’t expect much parallel development for the libraries.

and you can either
$ darcs get darcs.debian.org:/darcs/pkg-haskell/ghc
or
$ darcs get darcs.debian.org:/darcs/pkg-haskell/experimental/ghc

We better merge them after a switch to git, it seems :-]

Greetings,
Joachim

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