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Re: upgrading language-python to 0.5?



Hi Joachim,

Sorry for the delay.

On Sun, Mar 08, 2015 at 10:19:41PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Dear Tycho,
> 
> Am Sonntag, den 08.03.2015, 13:11 -0600 schrieb Tycho Andersen:
> > Is it possible to upgrade the version of language-python in sid? 0.4
> > doesn't build with ghc 7.8, and I'd like to update some of my code to
> > work with it and not have to patch it for debian :). I'm happy to help
> > if that would be useful.
> 
> we are still in a freeze, so we won’t upgrade packages in sid right now.
> But regular (although slightly slowed down) development happens in
> expeirmental, which has 0.4.1, which seems to be ghc-7.8 compatible.
> Does that help you?

It does, and I can carry a patch until language-python itself is
upgraded in sid and then re-upload.

> I also see that there is a very fresh 0.5 version on hackage, although I
> must say I find its dependency "utf8-string == 1" strange; will it
> really not work with "utf8-string == 1.0.0.1"?
> 
> If you want to help out, you might want to ask upstream about this.

It looks like this is fixed in v0.5.1, procrastination for the win.

Thanks,

Tycho

> Greetings,
> Joachim
> 
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