<html><head></head><body>That is true and this will be fixed for the release candidate. However Debian 8 is now no longer Debian's current stable release so I wasn't prioritizing this issue. If the lack of a Debian 8 distribution is preventing anyone from testing please let me know.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>- Ben<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On June 17, 2019 6:24:16 AM EDT, Matthew Pickering <matthewtpickering@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">There seems to be no debian8 bindist which is different from every<br>release at least back to ghc-8.0.1.<br><br>On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 8:36 PM Ben Gamari <ben@well-typed.com> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> Hello everyone,<br><br> The GHC team is pleased to announce the second and likely last alpha<br> release of GHC 8.8.1. The source distribution, binary distributions, and<br> documentation are available at<br><br> <a href="https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.8.1-alpha2">https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.8.1-alpha2</a><br><br> A draft of the release notes is also available [1].<br><br> This release is the culmination of over 3000 commits by over one hundred<br> contributors and has several new features and numerous bug fixes<br> relative to GHC 8.6:<br><br> * Profiling now works correctly on 64-bit Windows (although still may<br> be problematic on 32-bit Windows due to platform limitations; see<br> #15934)<br><br> * A new code layout algorithm for amd64's native code generator<br><br> * The introduction of a late lambda-lifting pass which may reduce<br> allocations significantly for some programs.<br><br> * Further work on Trees That Grow, enabling improved code re-use of the<br> Haskell AST in tooling<br><br> * More locations where users can write `forall` (GHC Proposal #0007)<br><br> * Further work on the Hadrian build system<br><br> This release brings a number of fixes since alpha 1:<br><br> * A number of linker fixes (#16779, #16784)<br><br> * The process, binary, Cabal, time, terminfo libraries have all been<br> bumped to their final release versions<br><br> * A regression rendering TemplateHaskell unusable in cross-compiled<br> configurations has been fixed (#16331)<br><br> * A regression causing compiler panics on compilation of some programs<br> has been fixed (#16449)<br><br> * -Wmissing-home-modules now handles hs-boot files correctly (#16551)<br><br> * A regression causing some programs to fail at runtime has been fixed<br> (#16066)<br><br> Due to on-going work on our release and testing infrastructure this<br> cycle is proceeding at a pace significantly slower than expected.<br> However, we anticipate that this investment will allow us to release a<br> more reliable, easier-to-install compiler on the planned six-month<br> release cadence in the future.<br><br> As always, if anything looks amiss do let us know.<br><br> Happy compiling!<br><br> Cheers,<br><br> - Ben<br><br> [1] <a href="https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.8.1-alpha2/docs/html/users_guide/8.8.1-notes.html">https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.8.1-alpha2/docs/html/users_guide/8.8.1-notes.html</a><hr> ghc-devs mailing list<br> ghc-devs@haskell.org<br> <a href="http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs">http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs</a><br></blockquote></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</body></html>