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

[Brandon Allbery]

Debian pretty much didn't have a Haskell maintainers group for much of that
time period. There's a new group now, but it's taking time for them to
modernize everything.

On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 7:29 AM Iustin Pop <iustin at k1024.org> wrote:

> On 2024-04-01 13:20:37, Volker Wysk wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, dem 31.03.2024 um 18:22 +0100 schrieb Andrew Lelechenko:
> > > If triggering rebuild does not work immediately, remove documentation
> > > first and trigger rebuild afterwards.
> > >
> > > There are 4 build reports
> > > now: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hsshellscript-3.6.2/reports/4
> ,
> > > but the latest one fails because, as it seems, your package does not
> > > actually support GHC 9.6 and newer dependencies.
> >
> > Yes, that's what it looks like. It's good that you noticed it.
> >
> > I'm a Linux user (with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS). My GHC (8.8.4) comes with the
> > haskell-platform metapackage. GHC 9.8.2 should be included in Ubuntu
> 24.04
> > LTS. I see no easy way to get a running GHC 9.6. now, so I can fix it.
> >
> > According to https://wiki.haskell.org/Base_package , my GHC version,
> 8.8.4,
> > should have been released between Jul 2019 and Mar 2020. That's way
> before
> > my Ubuntu 22.04 distribution. I don't get it, why such an old version is
> > being shipped. The ghc version in the newest Ubuntu (23.10) is old too...
>
> 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.
>
> regards,
> iustin
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