[headsup] Haskell Platform 2012.2 coming soon to Rawhide

[Jens-Ulrik Petersen]

Hi,

Just a quick heads-up that haskell-platform in Rawhide
will be soon be updated to the new 2012.4 release. [1]
As usual there will be quite a bit of dependency breakage
while all the reverse dependencies get rebuilt:
I have already tested it locally and committed
required changes to git.  At the same time we will also
be updating various libraries to their latest versions.

In other Haskell news, ghc-7.4.2 was finally released. [2]
I am still a bit split on whether we should ship
it in F18.  It is a bugfix release but it is not clear
yet if Haskell Platform will see an official release
in time for F18 - it needs a change to their schedule anyway,
which is under discussion.  ghc-7.4.2 also has ghci support for ARM.
I guess it comes down to whether we give priority to
ghc or haskell-platform: e.g. Ubuntu 12.04 shipped
ghc-7.4.1 and an unofficial haskell-platform-2012.1
(whereas F17 is still on ghc-7.0.4 and the last official
haskell-platform-2011.4 release).
Debian is currently transitioning ghc-7.4.1 and
haskell-platform-2012.2 to testing too.

Jens

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/
[2] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.4.2/html/users_guide/release-7-4-2.html

[Jens-Ulrik Petersen]

Just a quick update:

>  Just a quick heads-up that haskell-platform in Rawhide
>  will be soon be updated to the new 2012.4 release. [1]
>  As usual there will be quite a bit of dependency breakage
>  while all the reverse dependencies get rebuilt:
>  I have already tested it locally and committed
>  required changes to git.  At the same time we will also
>  be updating various libraries to their latest versions. 
Okay haskell-platform and the XMonad and gtk2hs stacks have now
been rebuilt and I think I have now bumped all packages that
need rebuilding this time: so currently no further actions needed.

I think using a script with cblrepo and wait-repo I should be
able to rebuild everything automatically in one go (modulo a few failures of course).

I also started working on cabal-rpm again and hope to have something working soon.

Cheers, Jens

Haskell Platform 2012.2 rebuilds finished for Rawhide

[Jens-Ulrik Petersen]

Okay I finished the rebuilding in record time with
my simple new rebuild script:

http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=haskell-sig.git;a=blob;f=bin/rebuild-koji

Next stop will be ghc-7.4.2 and HP-2012.4 perhaps - but not decided when that may happen.

F18 rawhide is open again for normal Haskell packaging development. :-)

Last step will be to block all the old HP packages from f18 since they
are now provided as haskell-platform subpackages.

Jens