Hi iustin, On 23:14 Sat 23 Feb , Iustin Pop wrote: > Hi Apollon, > > I just realised that all the fixes from the Debian packaging are on > master. This means two thing for the stable-2.16 branch: > > - building in a recent environment is tricky > - the travis-ci builds for it are still failing > > Any reason why not to update stable-2.16 to be fully buildable? The > cherry-picks should be easy, and given how old the dependencies of > 2.16.0 are, bumping them up should be much better than leaving as-is. > > Thoughts?
The updates on master break backward compatibility with GHC 7.x. While this might arguably be no real problem, it still is a significant change for a minor release. I'll have a look and see if I can get things to build for GHC 7.10 without too much effort, but I'm afraid it's non- trivial. If it's not possible, we can still discuss about backporting the changes from master; I'm all in for it, because stable-2.16 can only be built on Jessie without patches right now. Cheers, Apollon
