On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 04:29:03AM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 01:04:22AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > I would like to get a new version of ghc6 into unstable soon. > > I think it's best to build the current version with gcc 3.3. > > Upstream seem to be taking a while to get the new release out > Yeah; the release seemed imminent on the 11th, but this was shortly > followed by Mrs Upstream, with complete disregard for the release > schedule, giving birth. > I'm afraid I don't have a good estimated release date now, but I think > he'll be back at work soon. > Unfortunately at each stage I've been under the impression the release > will probably have happened before m68k has built everything, making > spending time on uploading a new 6.4 et al an unattractive proposition. The work of manually bootstrapping ghc6 around libgmp is something that shouldn't be delayed any longer. It happens that thanks to the glibc maintainers choosing to push ppc64 support into the archive before glibc 2.3.5 is in testing, glibc, gcc-4.0, and gmp all have to go into testing together. If ghc6 and ghc5 aren't rebuilt against libgmp3c2 soon, then pretty much all haskell packages will need to be pulled out of testing in order to get things unstuck for etch. (That may happen regardless, in which case it's just a question of how long before ghc is eligible to get back in.) So Kurt, I think it would be a good idea if you did go ahead with an NMU here. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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