Dear Neil, Am Dienstag, den 04.08.2015, 17:06 -0600 schrieb Neil Mayhew: > I can definitely see the advantage of Debian following Stackage LTS for > package versions. However, it seems a little odd to continue to call the > package haskell-platform, since it's based on stackage and not on the > platform itself (although I realize it won't contain the full set of > stackage packages, just the selection that are contained in the > platform). For people (like myself) doing Haskell development on Mac and > Windows as well as Linux, we won't be able to get the same platform on > Debian as we do on the other systems. I wonder if it would be better to > rename the package to stackage-platform or something similar?
Even before we started tracking Stackage, we never promised to ship precisely the versions as specified in the platform. Often we had to upgrade a few packages because some of our >700 packages required a newer version. As we allow at most one version per package in Debian, it is simply not viable to provide precisely the platform version on Debian – stackage or not. Nevertheless we want our users to be able to run $ apt-get install haskell-platform and get something that is close enough to the platform. In particular, it should have all the libraries that the platform recommends. So far, we never had a user complain that “our” platform packages was a bit off. > I see that Stackage bases itself on specific versions of GHC, and given > the new version numbering scheme of the Haskell Platform, which seems to > be tracking the GHC version it uses, I wonder if in the future Stackage > will use matching versions for the packages that are in the platform? Quite possible! If you are interested in that solution, you might want to discuss it with (<stack...@googlegroups.com>). OTOH I fear that they will want the same freedom to deviate from the platform that Debian wants. Platform 7.10 requires GHC-7.10. This is ready in experimental, but by the release team’s > request we are (unfortunately) holding off the upload to unstable at > least until the current GCC transition is over. > > OK, understood. I just wanted to get the new upstream version of > haskell-platform into the queue. > > However, I'm not sure how a packaged GHC 7.10 would fit with Stackage > LTS which is currently based on GHC 7.8. Would you name the package > ghc-7.10 and keep the existing GHC 7.8 as plain ghc? I assume you > wouldn't want to have a bunch of libghc710 packages to go with it, > though (like we used to have with the libghc6 packages). I expect stackage LTS-3 to come out very soon now™, which will be based on 7.10. If not, we switch to tracking Stackage nightlty until LTS-3 is branched. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: F0FBF51F JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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