Bug#912788: fixed in ghc 8.8.3-1~exp1

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 08:42:23PM -0400, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> > Format: 1.8
> > Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:56:27 +0200
> > Source: ghc
> > Architecture: source
> > Version: 8.8.3-1~exp1
> > Distribution: experimental
> > Urgency: medium
> > Maintainer: Debian Haskell Group <pkg-haskell-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> > Changed-By: Ilias Tsitsimpis <iliastsi at debian.org>
> > Closes: 912788 943097
> > Changes:
> >  ghc (8.8.3-1~exp1) experimental; urgency=medium
> >  .
> >    * New upstream release
> >    * Do not pass ggc-min-expand=10 on mips64el
> >    * Remove unnecessary build-dependency on alex
> >    * Replace python-sphinx build-dependency with python3-sphinx
> >      (Closes: #943097)
> >    * Allow unregisterised ghc-8.6 to build newer GHC
> >    * Fix wrong installation of ghc-<version> manpages
> >    * Bump compat level to 12
> >    * Use the debhelper-compat build-dependency and remove d/compat
> >    * Update to llvm-9 (Closes: #912788)
> 
> looks like ~exp2 built on all release archs, so ss there any chance
> this version can be uploaded to unstable? ghc is currently the last
> reverse dependency for llvm-toolchain-6.0, which could be removed as
> soon as the version of ghc reaches sid. bonus points, this version
> will also reduce by 1 the number of reverse dependencies of
> python-sphinx, making it closer to be removed.

Gentle ping.

Cheers,
        Moritz