On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 02:05:23PM +0000, Joachim Breitner wrote: > 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.
Right, but people also want to get security updates or whatever else might happen. > > 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 Well, mostly something like haskell-platform but without an upper bound on the versions. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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