Re: Hackage: "Build: PlanningFailed"

Volker Wysk <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Montag, dem 01.04.2024 um 13:29 +0200 schrieb Iustin Pop:
> 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.

I've installed it via ghcup. That was easy! Thanks for the tip.

I've uploaded hsshellscript to Hackage now. It seems like all works, but
there is no build report.

Volker
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