[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Patches for armhf and armel (ghc 7.8* series)?

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hi Joachim and debian haskell maintainers,

I remember a while ago in some discussion you pointed out that without people working on arm* platforms the next upload on unstable will likely drop arm support because of build failures...

I tried to google a little bit, and *seems* that we can have two patches (one from Colin), that *might* bring arm back to experimental and ghc 7.8.

I don't know why they haven't been merged (the patch from colin has been included into 7.8.20140411-1 but according to buildd [1] it never got a chance to build yet).

The other patch should fix armel and upstream seems to have a milestone for the fix [2], 7.8.3 version

Do you think is worth an upload and a try?
Would be nice to have arm still supported on debian and derivates

[1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=ghc&arch=armhf

[2] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8976

thanks


Gianfranco
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