On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 08:39:38PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 10:24:54PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > >On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 10:39:08PM +0200, Fabio Riga wrote: > >>Hi Magnus, > >> > >>is there a reason for dropping those packages? If some package fail > >>to build in ghc 7.6 we will lost as well many packages in > >>[haskell-extra]. I'm concerned especially about gtk, pandoc and > >>wai/warp: they are needed for packages like hakyll, gitit and the > >>yesod suite among others. > >> > >>If there aren't important reasons to switch to 7.6, could you please > >>wait a little more before make this change? > > > >I've just finished building glib/pango/gtk for x86_64, so this is > >getting to be less and less of an issue :) > > > >With the recent announcement of GHC making it into > >[testing]/[community-testing] there ought to be a few more patches to > >"steal" for use in [haskell]. > > Since I've now added all the packages you list above, except for > pandoc, I'll make the push of GHC 7.6 on Wednesday. I plan to move > [haskell] to [haskell-old] and [haskell-testing] to [haskell]. I'll > keep [haskell-old] around on kiwilight for a week or so, unless I get > requests for keeping it longer. > > Now is the time to raise any objections and convince me to hold off > further :-)
The transition has been made. [haskell-old] will be kept around until the missing packages are re-added to [haskell]. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: mag...@therning.org jabber: mag...@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term. -- Alan Kay
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