[Haskell-cafe] Re: Poll: Do you need to be able to build darcs from source on GHC 6.6?

[Trent W. Buck]

"Jason Dagit" <dagit at codersbase.com> writes:
> Debian is nice in some ways and it's really great that stable lives up
> to its name, but I am sad that Debian has such old software for so
> long.

Those two properties are strongly correlated.

There is backports.org for cases where you want to cherry-pick a handful
of packages for which stability is less important than newness.  Of
course, GHC 6.8 isn't on backports.org at present.  That means either
it's non-trivial to backport, or nobody has volunteered the time.