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

Julian Andres Klode jak at debian.org
Mon Mar 5 14:37:59 UTC 2012


On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 02:05:23PM +0000, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> 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.

Right, but people also want to get security updates or whatever else
might happen.

> 
> 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

Well, mostly something like haskell-platform but without an upper
bound on the versions.

-- 
Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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