Dear Release-Team, the Haskell team has been discussion what we would like to see in wheezy and I’d like to keep you in the loop. Short version: Some new packages will be uploaded during the next week or two, then we allow things to stabilize, then everything ought to migrate to testing in one big swoop, ideally end of May. Longer version: After some cleanup today, no unsolved release critical bugs remain (AFAIK). hmake is buggy (FTBFS), but anyways obsolete and we’ll probably ask for removal or fix it in time. A new version of the Haskell Platform (2012.4.0.0) is coming up in the next few days, the first to include the latest version of the compiler, 7.4.1, which we already have in Debian. Hence, or main goal is to get this combination into wheezy. The platform includes version bumps of Haskell packages relatively low in the dependency tree (transformers and mtl). Then changes are small, but a number of packages will have to be upgraded to newer upstream versions which declare the updated mtl/transformer packages as supported. A small number of packages do not yet have an official release supporting that, I have pinged the maintainers today and we will, lacking a proper release to use, patch the packages in question. I hope that upgrading the packages to version supporting the latest mtl version will not cause new problems to creep in. There is a chance that a new minor release of the compiler, GHC 7.4.2, will be released in time. We’ll look at the changes and see if we want them. Using that will require rebuilding lots of packages, but otherwise I would expect a problem from this minor release. It would allow us to release with less stuff in debian/patches, though. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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