[Haskell-cafe] No upgrade of GHC version in Ubuntu repository

[Lizanets Danylo]

  Because LTS must be stable. Although you can add some PPA with new versions of packages to your software sources list. 

--- Original message --- 
From: "Vlatko Basic" < vlatko.basic at gmail.com > 
Date: 14 October 2013, 13:28:21 

Hi Danylo, 

I have 7.6.3 already, but I was wondering why the repository packages are not maintained. 
12.04 is an LTS for 5 years, so I suppose many would stick to it for a longer time. 


br, 
vlatko 

-------- Original Message -------- 
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] No upgrade of GHC version in Ubuntu repository 
From: Lizanets Danylo <iamweasel at ukr.net> 
To: vlatko.basic at gmail.com 
Cc: haskell-cafe at haskell.org 
Date: 14.10.2013 12:40 


Hi vlatko, 

New versions of GHC are available in newer versions of Ubuntu (12.10, 13.04 etc.). I recommend you to download, build and install Haskell-platform from sources. 

Best regards, 

Danylo Lizanets  

--- Original message --- 
From: "Vlatko Basic" < vlatko.basic at gmail.com > 
Date: 14 October 2013, 11:44:17 

Hi Caffe,

deb packages of GHC (and Haskell Platform) in Ubuntu's (LTS Precise, 12.04) 
"universe" are not upgrading at all.
GHC package is almost two years old, still on version 7.4.1, and GHC site still 
recommends to use Haskell Platform from repository.


Even kernel is upgrading more often, and one would expect it is much more 
difficult. :-)


What would be the reason for that?
Is it abandoned?


Best regards,

vlatko
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