[Haskell-cafe] Hackage: "Build: PlanningFailed"

[Henning Thielemann]

On Mon, 1 Apr 2024, Iustin Pop wrote:

> Because the way entire toolchains and the associated libraries are built
> and transitioned, you can't simply upgrade the compiler. A GHC or Perl
> of Python transition in Debian (and thus Ubuntu) takes 1-2 months to
> fully roll out, and more so probably for compiled things such as
> Haskell. Plus, the entire distribution is stabilised before the final
> released.
>
> So you should count at least 6 months, if not a year, before the
> distribution release date. Debian's Haskell group could always use more
> hands as well ;-)
>
> Just use ghcup or a more recent distribution within a VM to debug and 
> test.

One can use Nix to install newer versions even under Ubuntu. I actually 
install the Linux binary tarballs and compress them in a squasfs, because 
every GHC installation consumes more than a gigaton of harddisk space.