On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 11:31:22 +0200 Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I lost a bit of oversight. Where are we right now? > > Has all of LTS-6 migrated to testing? I still we are still waiting for a testing migration, which is blocked by reverse dependencies of openglraw that aren't removed yet. I started filing bugs about them, but problems in my mailer prevented me from filing all of them. > Should we update to LTS-6.7, to get some newer packages in? > > Is it worth starting to stage GHC-6 and LTS-7 (based on nightly) on a > branch in the repository? You probably mean GHC-8, right? I still don't have comprehensive test about my changes to haskell-devscripts and dh-haskell still needs to be updated to handle the new ABIs correctly. Another problem is that updating GHC-8 with the new haskell-devscripts causes a one-time bootstrapping problem, as GHC-8 needs the haskell-devscripts-nocolour >= 0.10.3 to handle the ABIs correctly, but the new version of haskell-devscripts needs GHC-8 as earlier versions of ghc-pkg aren't able to retrieve the abi field, like haskell-devscripts requires it. We can prevent this by shipping the next version of GHC with it's own version of dh_haskell_provides again and making it depend on haskell-devscripts-nocolour once we have GHC-8 in unstable. That shouldn't be hard, but still needs to be done. Regards Sven
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