Re: GHC 8.4 Change proposal

[Jens-Ulrik Petersen]

 On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 11:49 PM Jens-Ulrik Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com
>  
wrote:

>  With the move to ghc-8.4 I am planning to retire the following groups
> of
>  packages:
>
>  [enumerator is long deprecated and no longer builds out of the box]
>  ghc-attoparsec-enumerator
>  ghc-blaze-builder-enumerator
>  ghc-enumerator
>  ghc-zlib-enum
>  
I retired these from F30 and Rawhide today.

[FTBFS]
>  ghc-bytestring-trie
>  
The latest version on Hackage actually builds - the package is not even in
Stackage though.

haskell-platform  [more or less deprecated - no release for 8.4.4]
>  
I am still on the fence on this this one.

[weldr packages FTBFS since 8.2]
> ghc-bdcs-api
> ghc-bdcs
> ghc-conduit-combinators
> ghc-content-store
>  
Chris, David, Weldr people: can I go ahead and retire these for you now?

[Elliot: this seems no longer needed (has a new dep on cabal-plan) -
> ghc-mod is no longer maintained or in Fedora]
> ghc-cabal-helper
>  
Ping :)

[the following important core libraries now included in ghc]
> ghc-mtl
> ghc-parsec
> ghc-stm
> ghc-text
>  
These have been retired today too.

Jens