[arch-haskell] Move to GHC 7.6.1

[Magnus Therning]

Hi all,

As I'm sure you know GHC 7.6.1 has been released[1].  The Arch devs
are, as always amazingly quick, so there's already a source package
available for GHC 7.6.1.  I don't believe it's in [testing] already,
so I went ahead and built it for x86_64 and made it available at [2].
Please go ahead and play with it if you want, and report any issues
with it both on this list (Thomas and Vesa, please let people know if
and how you'd like to receive anything that's found).

At the moment there's a fairly long list of packages that prevent an
immediate move to 7.6.1 in [haskell].  I'll try to start working on
reducing that list during the coming week.

This is the list as it looks at the moment:
Adding base 4.6.0.0 would break:
  HTTP : base >=3 && >=2 && <4.6
  cblrepo : base ==4.5.*
  dataenc : base >=3.0.0 && <4.6
  haddock : base >=4.3 && <4.6 && >=4.3 && <4.6
  split : base <4.6
Adding bytestring 0.10.0.0 would break:
  anansi : bytestring >=0.9 && <0.10 && >=0.9 && <0.10
  blaze-html : bytestring >=0.9 && <0.10
  blaze-markup : bytestring >=0.9 && <0.10
  cblrepo : bytestring ==0.9.*
  http-types : bytestring >=0.9.1.5 && <0.10
  pureMD5 : bytestring >=0.9 && <0.10
  system-fileio : bytestring >=0.9 && <0.10
  system-filepath : bytestring >=0.9 && <0.10
  zlib : bytestring ==0.9.*
Adding containers 0.5.0.0 would break:
  GLUT : containers >=0.3 && <0.5
  anansi : containers >=0.1 && <0.5 && >=0.1 && <0.5
  bytestring-show : containers <0.5
  dataenc : containers >=0.1.0 && <0.5
  pandoc : containers >=0.1 && <0.5 && >=0.1 && <0.5 && >=0.1 && <0.5
  parallel-io : containers >=0.2 && <0.5
  scion-browser : containers >=0.2 && <0.5 && >=0.2 && <0.5
Adding directory 1.2.0.0 would break:
  cblrepo : directory ==1.1.*
  haskeline : directory >=1.0 && <1.2
  pandoc : directory >=1 && <1.2 && >=1 && <1.2 && >=1 && <1.2
  temporary : directory >=1.0 && <1.2
Adding integer-gmp 0.5.0.0 would break:
  bytestring-show : integer-gmp >=0.2 && <0.5
Adding unix 2.6.0.0 would break:
  cblrepo : unix ==2.5.*
  system-fileio : unix >=2.3 && <2.6
  temporary : unix >=2.3 && <2.6
Adding Cabal 1.16.0 would break:
  cabal-file-th : Cabal >=1.10 && <1.15
  cblrepo : Cabal ==1.14.*

/M

[1]: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_7_6_1
[2]: http://www.kiwilight.com/haskell/testing/x86_64/ghc-7.6.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

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