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Re: Shall we clean out before 7.10?



> Am 12.07.2015 um 11:47 schrieb Sven Bartscher <sven.bartscher@weltraumschlangen.de>:
> 
> 
>> Am 11.07.2015 um 17:10 schrieb Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org>:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> recently, I brought up the idea of removing a bunch of cruft that is
>> neither a dependency of something that we want for sure (a “key”
>> package) nor in Stackage (presumably easy to maintain).
>> 
>> With the current transition (almost) done, maybe that should be the
>> next thing to tackle. I expect that doing that now will make the 7.10
>> transition quicker, as there are simply fewer not-well-maintained
>> packages that can break.
> 
> Shouldn’t we wait until there is a Stackage LTS with GHC 7.10, before
> we switch to GHC 7.10? I guess if we switch before Stackage, we will
> get a lot of packages ahead.
> 
> Since, we don’t know when Stackage will upgrade (or does someone?),
> I guess it would be good to use the time until then to clean up.
> 
> Regards
> Sven

Please read my message above, as I accidentally sent it to Joachim
directly.

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