I'm not familiar with ghc, and what the regression potential is for
getting a new compiler. Is there a chance that with the 7.0 -> 7.4
change (which sounds quite a large jump) a lot of the Haskell packages
in the archive would fail to build due to syntactic changes, the
compiler getting more strict, using different default options, linking
behaviour, etc.? If that's not the case, then I have no objections.

However, please rather do this after feature freeze than right now. Our
buildds already have a hard time with keeping up with all the changes
that go into the distro right now due to FF rush, and the recent rebuild
test is still not finished on armhf/amd64 yet as well. It might be nice
if the rebuild could take place during a quiet period such as the beta-1
freeze.

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