Minor release with new ghc?

Mikhail Glushenkov the.dead.shall.rise at gmail.com
Tue Aug 2 16:45:25 BST 2011


Hi,

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Dienstag, den 02.08.2011, 13:40 +0200 schrieb Mikhail Glushenkov:
>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org> wrote:
>> > Am Donnerstag, den 16.06.2011, 12:17 +0900 schrieb Jens Petersen:
>> >> > a new ghc-7.0.4 is soon to be released, with mostly minor and bugfix
>> >> > changes. With my Debian Haskell Group hat on, and to be able to plan
>> >> > ahead: Are we going to see a minor release of the Platform which
>> >> > recommends ghc-7.0.4?
>> >>
>> >> +1 also for Fedora: I am planning to update soon from ghc-7.0.2 to
>> >> the just released ghc-7.0.4.
>> >>
>> >> http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/ReleaseTimetable
>> >
>> > May I bring this question up again?
>>
>> Apparently everyone is busy. I don't have a lot of free time right now
>> either, but if we agree to do a release that includes GHC 7.0.4, I can
>> roll out a Windows installer.
>
> if time is the only issue: For the purposes of the Debian Haskell Group
> it would be sufficient to know that it is o.k. for the Debian packages
> of the platform to diverge from the released specs by including
> ghc-7.0.4 instead of 7.0.3. A proper release is not really needed.

I think it's all right.

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