Bug#832107: ghc: please stop build-depending on llvm-3.5

Fri Jul 22 23:13:46 UTC 2016

Hello,

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:25:11AM +0000, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> We'd like to drop old LLVMs, but ghc still uses llvm-3.5, which the
> maintainer already flagged for RM (see #812778).
> 
> ghc is currently the very last blocker for llvm-3.5 removal.
> 
> I understood ghc 8 builds with llvm 3.7, so possibly the best course of
> action is to get to a point where ghc 8 can go to unstable, sooner
> rather than later please…

Per [1], we're expecting to do this in September.

[1]  https://unknownparallel.wordpress.com/2016/05/22/stackage-lts-and-ghc-8-0/

-- 
Sean Whitton
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