[Bug 302149] Re: [jaunty] Please sync ghc6 with latest upstream

[Russel Winder]

Andrey,

I must support what Iain said here, your comment is not constructive:
there is nothing wrong (per se) with the Ubuntu distro.  Ubuntu is more
like Debian Stable than Debian Testing, There is a freeze point of
packages for each release (6 monthly for Ubuntu, every 18--36 months for
Debian Stable :-) Debian Testing, MacPorts, Fink, etc. are rolling
update systems.  If 6.10 were not in those I would be very worried.

So the problem here was that 6.10 did not get into Debian Testing (or at
least Debian Unstable) for far too long.  Once the package is in Debian
Testing, it immediately gets included into the next Ubuntu.  So as Iain
says, 6.10 missed Jaunty but will make Karmic.  Irritating, but natural
for a time-structured distro such as Ubuntu.

Your point about Eclipse and NetBeans should really be aimed elsewhere,
but again if there is a problem with versions, then the core issue is
getting updated packages into Debian Testing.  Actually I never use
packages for Eclipse (or NetBeans) because of the stupid way it cannot
handle per user plugins -- for example cf.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/5438 which is an
Eclipse problem that they clearly don't care about.  Actually I still
prefer Emacs over Eclipse and NetBeans, but that is a debate for a
different place.

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