ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.0.1

Ian Lynagh igloo@earth.li
Tue, 5 Aug 2003 00:11:02 +0100


On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 02:11:19PM -0700, Ashley Yakeley wrote:
> In article <20030804111626.GA15512@orthogonal.chaos.earth.li>,
>  Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li> wrote:
> 
> > Debian packages are now in the archive for unstable; just "apt-get
> > update" and "apt-get install ghc6 ghc6-prof ghc6-doc". There are also
> > ghc6-hopengl, ghc6-threaded-rts and ghc6-libsrc packages. It should
> > enter testing in 10 days time.
> 
> /usr/bin/ghc etc. links don't work "out of the box". It looks like your 
> post-install script needs to call update-alternatives on the four links.

This is caused by a bug in the remove scripts of some of the old
packages. Running "update-alternatives --auto ghc" as root should fix
it.


Thanks
Ian