[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#662646: haskell-platform: Not installable due to GHC 7.4

[Joachim Breitner]

Dear Julian,

Am Montag, den 05.03.2012, 14:53 +0100 schrieb Julian Andres Klode:
> Package: haskell-platform
> Version: 2011.4.0.0
> Severity: grave
> Tags: sid
> 
> The package haskell-platform is currently not installable in
> unstable. This is bad, as that package is a good meta package
> to start with. 

Correct, it’s about time to update it, now that most packages have been
rebuilt for GHC 7.4.1.

> For installed systems, it keeps the old packages
> around which cannot be good either.

Actually, this is a feature. The official platform defines a specific
set of versions, and users who want to develop against this particular
set don’t want suddenly a new version of some library on their machine.
At least not if there is not a corresponding platform update.

It seems that you are suggesting that there is a need for a general
haskell-metapackage that would pull in the platform and “most commonly
and generally useful” haskell libraries. If that is the case, then that
should be a package of its own

Greetings,
Joachim


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