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Re: GHC 8.0.2



Hi,

Am Donnerstag, den 19.01.2017, 19:17 +0200 schrieb Ilias Tsitsimpis:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 04:02PM, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> > > this looks good. Did any libraries with GHC got their version
> > > bumped in
> > > a way that requires changing the .cabal file in any of our other
> > > libraries?
> > 
> > I don't know how to test that, sorry
> 
> According to this[1], GHC v8.0.2 includes an upgrade of the
> `directory`
> library to 1.3.0.0. This breaks at least the following packages:
> 
>   * stack-1.1.2, which depends on `directory (>=1.2.1.0 && <1.3)`.
>   * Agda-2.5.1.1, which depends on `directory (>=1.2.0.1 && <1.3)`.
>   * Glob-0.7.12, which depends on `directory (<1.3)`.
> 
> There are probably more. I identified the above by settings
> `directory-1.3.0.0` as a dependency on package-plan.
> 
> [1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog

ok, I was fearing something like that. I very much assume that we can
just bump the bounds, but it would require sourceful uploads, and hence
a proper transition to testing. We should explain the situation to
d-release. Does anyone want to do that?

Greetings,
Joachim

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