Re: Upgrading GHC 8.8.1+dfsg1+is+8.6.5+dfsg1-3 to 8.8.1?

2020-04-28 Thread Martijn Bastiaan
That clears things up. Thank you Mattia. Op di 28 apr. 2020 om 15:56 schreef Mattia Rizzolo : > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 09:50:13AM +0200, Martijn Bastiaan wrote: > > Are there any plans to make it actually package 8.8.1? More > > No; the whole point of stable releases is that once a version is

Re: Upgrading GHC 8.8.1+dfsg1+is+8.6.5+dfsg1-3 to 8.8.1?

2020-04-28 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 09:50:13AM +0200, Martijn Bastiaan wrote: > Are there any plans to make it actually package 8.8.1? More No; the whole point of stable releases is that once a version is there it stay there. There are very few exceptions to this, and all of them are just because the new

Upgrading GHC 8.8.1+dfsg1+is+8.6.5+dfsg1-3 to 8.8.1?

2020-04-28 Thread Martijn Bastiaan
Hi all, I was wondering about the package "ghc" in the Ubuntu 20.04 repositories. It's version reads "8.8.1+dfsg1+is+8.6.5+dfsg1-3". At first glance it seems like it would install GHC 8.8.1, but it actually packages GHC 8.6.5 (like it promises after the +is). Are there any plans to make it