Bug 892562 - ghc-7.6.3 is available
Summary: ghc-7.6.3 is available
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: ghc
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jens Petersen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 855596
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-01-07 10:55 UTC by Upstream Release Monitoring
Modified: 2013-08-30 04:31 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-06-21 09:45:50 UTC
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Description Upstream Release Monitoring 2013-01-07 10:55:01 UTC
Latest upstream release: 7.6.1
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

Comment 1 Upstream Release Monitoring 2013-02-03 10:03:51 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

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Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2013-02-04 04:19:41 UTC
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.

Comment 3 Jens Petersen 2013-04-22 03:05:28 UTC
ghc-7.6.3 has been released with one bugfix.

Comment 4 Upstream Release Monitoring 2013-04-22 07:12:29 UTC
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

Comment 5 Jens Petersen 2013-04-23 09:40:53 UTC
initial ghc-7.6.3 bootstrap committed to git master

Comment 6 Andrew Cowie 2013-06-12 05:12:29 UTC
Any chance of getting this into F19?

AfC

Comment 7 Jens Petersen 2013-06-13 06:53:54 UTC
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/

Comment 8 Jens Petersen 2013-06-21 09:45:50 UTC
Built for F20 rawhide.

Comment 9 Andrew Cowie 2013-08-29 13:20:28 UTC
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

Comment 10 Jens Petersen 2013-08-30 01:55:16 UTC
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.)

Comment 11 Jens Petersen 2013-08-30 01:57:28 UTC
(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.)

Comment 12 Andrew Cowie 2013-08-30 04:31:44 UTC
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


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