status of ghc / haskell transition

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 07:08:34PM +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> Hi Adrian

Hi Sebastian,

> On 2023-10-20 08:30:21 +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> > On 2023-10-19 18:00:29 +0300, Ilias Tsitsimpis wrote:
> > > > Do you need help from us?
> > > 
> > > Can you please schedule the necessary binNMUs for the new GHC? We have a
> > > list here [3] that is updated every 4 hours. We are currently blocked
> > > until this happens, as we need all existing packages to build with the
> > > new GHC.
> > 
> > Scheduled.
> 
> I see that you failed plenty of the haskell binNMUs. Would you mind
> reporting the corresponding bugs so that the maintainers are aware of
> what to fix? TIA

the maintainers are already aware that every new major version of 
ghc needs a source upload of > 1k packages to make the libghc-*-doc
packages installable again so that the new ghc can migrate to testing
(this was point 3 in the email from Ilias).

I've failed binNMU'ed packages that did not yet have a source upload for 
9.4 since they will anyway need an upload, and then their rdeps would 
need binNMUs again.

IMHO > 100 RC bugs for these packages would not be helpful right now,
it will be easier to report remaining issues (if any) from excuses
when the maintainers have finished upgrading/uploading all packages.

> Cheers

cu
Adrian