ghc6 (Haskell compiler) becoming old

[Michael Bienia]

On 2008-01-06 02:15:18 -0500, Paul Dufresne wrote:
> One of my new year resolution is to become a not too bad Haskell
> programmer in 2008.
> That said, I would like to have latest development version of ghc6
> (Glasgow Haskell Compiler) which is the most well known Haskell
> compiler in Haskell community, inside Hardy.
> 
> Unfortunately, Debian Sid just have the 6.6.1 version (that was
> released april 26, 2007) and the current version on ghc web site is
> 6.8.2. (released december 12, 2007).

Debian unstable has ghc 6.8.2 now (see
http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/ghc6/news/20080106T214705Z.html).

> *Maybe* the reason is that many sub libraries need to be rebuilt with
> a new compiler,
> and *maybe* this is a lot of job, I don't know.

I've also seen some uploads of other haskell packages but didn't pay to
much attention at the changelog.
The haskell packages have a very strict dependency on the ghc6 package
so they need at least be rebuild with the newer ghc6.

If you are interested to see a newer ghc6 in hardy, a list of packages
which need to be synced from Debian unstable would be helpful.

Michael