[GHC DevOps Group] GHC 8.4.3 release, and release policies?

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

That does sound like a good plan to me.

Cheers,
Manuel

> Am 14.05.2018 um 08:14 schrieb Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com>:
> 
> Gershom B <gershomb at gmail.com <mailto:gershomb at gmail.com>> writes:
> 
>> I believe this list/group is intended to help set GHC release policies
>> and plan when releases occur.
>> 
>> I'd like to draw people's attention to
>> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/15068
>> 
>> I think that the "nay" side has the right of it.
>> 
>> 1) To summarize my understanding: there is an issue with upstream gnu
>> binutils that are included in Ubuntu 18.04 and is triggered by GHC
>> _only_ when the -g flag for debug symbol output is passed. This bug is
>> triggered by GHCs going back through the 8.2 series. Note that 18.04
>> was released _after_ ghc 8.4.2.
>> 
>> There is a patch to GHC to work around this issue, that also
>> incidentally improves another possible issue with debug symbol
>> emitting.
>> 
>> Normally the -g flag is relatively rarely used, and by those who would
>> be able to work around such things. However, stack runs with -g by
>> default, unless users explicitly compile with symbol stripping turned
>> on.
>> 
>> The proposed solution is an 8.4.3 release of GHC with _just_ this patch.
>> 
> I agree that a single-patch release is both unnecessary and would set very
> poor precedent.
> However, I intended to suggest that 8.4.3 would be a full (albeit fairly
> small) release. There are currently a few other patches in the merge
> queue including fixes for #15038, #15006, and #15145. It would also be
> nice to finalize and merge a fix for #14381 as I have noticed a number
> of people commenting on being bitten by it.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> - Ben
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