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Hi there,

I know FF is just around the corner, so I want to know if other RT
members think this is reasonable.

I'd like to update GHC to the new major release that came out recently.

Here are the release notes

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.4.1/html/users_guide/release-7-4-1.html

You can see that there are some nice changes. In particular for Ubuntu I
think the arm* improvements (using LLVM) are interesting.

Now, GHC isn't the smallest of packages. It'll take a reasonably long
time to build. And yes, you guessed it, there will be a full transition
of all 430 source packages or so. Possibly luckily, sourceful rebuilds
of all packages were required in Debian due to a haddock (arch:all
documentation packages) ABI change, so we could do this through syncs.
I'd also take the opportunity to pull in all NEW packages since we last
synced up eariler in the cycle.

iulian and I will manage this, but I realise that it's a significant
burden on resources, so I just want to see if you think it's a good idea
or not.

Thoughts appreciated.

Cheers.

** Affects: ghc (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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