[arch-haskell] Heads-up: ghc-7.0.1-1 => testing

[Rémy Oudompheng]

On 2010/11/26 Rémy Oudompheng <remyoudompheng at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2010/11/24 Rémy Oudompheng <remyoudompheng at gmail.com> wrote:
>> deepseq 1.1.1.0 -> 1.1.0.1
>> HTTP 4000.0.9 -> 4000.0.10
>> mtl 1.1.0.2 -> 1.1.1.0
>
> As you may have noticed, ghc-7* was moved to [staging] by other devs.
> I began rebuilding current versions of libraries when they were
> compatible. I would like your approval to do the following:
>
> deepseq 1.1.1.0 -> 1.1.0.1
> (version 1.1.1.0 is incompatible with GHC7 because it specifies a
> wrong version range, but the source code is identical, so this upgrade
> is absolutely harmless)
> mtl 1.1.0.2 -> 1.1.1.0
> (version 1.1.0.2 is incompatible with GHC7, but it looks like 1.1.1.0
> is API-compatible. It seems HP2011 will choose mtl 2.* however)
>
> Those packages would also end up in the [staging] repo.

Most libraries are now in [staging]. I've built darcs as an example:
it needs several patches to work, I've tken them from
  http://darcs.vm.spiny.org.uk/~ganesh/darcs-2.5-ghc7-2/

Rémy.