Hello Jan,
As far as I can tell, this should be handled using the standard
procedure for externally maintained bootstrap libraries:
http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Repositories/Upstream
You should coordinate with Roman about this. In the worst case,
you can manually make a new (GHC-specific) release yourself, on
the new version.
> Also, in order to make updated versions of the libraries compatible with
> older versions of GHC I would need to add some #ifdef pragmas. The question
> is whether we and package maintainers want that compatibility or should we
> expect that newly released versions of primitive and array will require at
> least 7.8 to run?
Yes, the backwards compatibility should be done.
Edward
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