That clears things up. Thank you Mattia. Op di 28 apr. 2020 om 15:56 schreef Mattia Rizzolo <mapr...@ubuntu.com>: > > 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 versions promises to not break unrelated > things. > The version of ghc is tighly coupled with many things, and it's not as > easy as "updating the package" (for example, we'd want to rebuild all > haskell packages, which are _many_). > > > fundamentally, what's the reason for including "xxx+is+yyy" packages? > > the +is version (usually is spelled +really, +is is weird) are used as a > way to "downgrade" the version. > Most likely, 8.8.1 was uploaded, then realized too many things broke and > the whole archive wasn't ready for that version, so it was rolled back > to 8.6.5. Since versions can't go backward, here comes the +really (or > +is in this case..) in play. > > -- > regards, > Mattia Rizzolo > > GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. > More about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : > Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` > Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia `- > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
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