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

[Andrew Lelechenko]

Just use ghcup (https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/install/)?

Best regards,
Andrew

> On 1 Apr 2024, at 12:20, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> 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...
> 
> So for now, I'll change the upper bound of the base package version back to
> 4.14 and support only GHC 8.8. Until I have a running Haskell platform with
> the newest GHC version again. Looks like I have to install it manually, not
> via apt.
> 
> Cheers,
> Volker
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