Bug 892562
| Summary: | ghc-7.6.3 is available | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Upstream Release Monitoring <upstream-release-monitoring> |
| Component: | ghc | Assignee: | Jens Petersen <petersen> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | andrew, bos, haskell-devel, petersen |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature, Triaged |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2013-06-21 09:45:50 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 855596 | ||
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Description
Upstream Release Monitoring
2013-01-07 10:55:01 UTC
Latest upstream release: 7.6.2 Current version in Fedora Rawhide: 7.4.2 URL: http://haskell.org/ghc/ Please consult the package updates policy before you issue an update to a stable branch: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy More information about the service that created this bug can be found at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upstream_release_monitoring I have done scratch bootstrap test builds of 7.6.2 for intel and arm: x86_64: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4921062 i686: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4921063 armv7: http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1412219 I put the "bootstrap" srpm at http://petersen.fedorapeople.org/ghc-7.6/ghc-7.6.2-11.fc19.src.rpm [106MB] which if built with http://petersen.fedorapeople.org/ghc-7.6/ghc-rpm-macros-0.976.5-1.fc19.src.rpm should generate correct rpm dependencies with ghc-pkg-7.6. The next Haskell Platform release is due in May (http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/ReleaseTimetable) which will surely too late for F19. ghc-7.6.3 has been released with one bugfix. Latest upstream release: 7.6.3 Current version in Fedora Rawhide: 7.4.2 URL: http://haskell.org/ghc/ Please consult the package updates policy before you issue an update to a stable branch: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy More information about the service that created this bug can be found at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upstream_release_monitoring initial ghc-7.6.3 bootstrap committed to git master Any chance of getting this into F19? AfC I am thinking about backporting after: - building for f20 rawhide and - after F19 GA (final) release but it is quite some work to do it and we haven't done a ghc backport in a long time. So I don't want to raise expectations too high and I will just say "maybe" for now. Most of the preparation for F20 ghc-7.6.3 has been done now, but nothing is built yet in the buildsystem. In the meantime you could try my test repo for f19: http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/petersen/ghc-7.6.3/ Built for F20 rawhide. I just ran up your testing repo on a Fedora 19 box, and everything built fine all the way up to a userland Snap web application. I'd say you can safely release a backport of GHC 7.6.3 to F19 users. AfC Well I would like to but main problem is finding time to do that... Can people say more about why they need 7.6.3 now? (Personally I am managing okay with 7.4.2 in F19.) (Also the problems I am seeing with llvm-3.3 and ghc on ARM make me worry about backporting to F19, even though ARM is not a F19 primary arch.) Speaking for myself, I need the profiling fixes Simon made that cause IDLE time not to be costed. From a programming perspective, the move of `catch` out of Prelude is an annoyance and we decided just to declare < 7.6 a loss and move on. Far more importantly, however, is that the RTS performance is dramatically better for webserver class workloads. AfC |