Bug#816860: stable backport, please

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi Joey,

Am Samstag, den 05.03.2016, 17:08 -0400 schrieb Joey Hess:
> There's currently no way to get stack installed on stable w/o
> downloading a binary from a third party, without any means of
> verification. 
> 
> The source depends on a newer base than stable's ghc currently has.
> So, it might be somewhat tricky to backport it.

the problem with stack is its rather large dependency tree (compared to
cabal-install, which I did backport). I’m wary of supporting that in
backports, with all the binNMUing and stuff required to do so.

Greetings,
Joachim

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