Dear Julian, Am Montag, den 05.03.2012, 14:53 +0100 schrieb Julian Andres Klode: > Package: haskell-platform > Version: 2011.4.0.0 > Severity: grave > Tags: sid > > The package haskell-platform is currently not installable in > unstable. This is bad, as that package is a good meta package > to start with.
Correct, it’s about time to update it, now that most packages have been rebuilt for GHC 7.4.1. > For installed systems, it keeps the old packages > around which cannot be good either. Actually, this is a feature. The official platform defines a specific set of versions, and users who want to develop against this particular set don’t want suddenly a new version of some library on their machine. At least not if there is not a corresponding platform update. It seems that you are suggesting that there is a need for a general haskell-metapackage that would pull in the platform and “most commonly and generally useful” haskell libraries. If that is the case, then that should be a package of its own Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer [email protected] | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: [email protected] | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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