Hi Rémy,
As you may have noticed, ghc-7* was moved to [staging] by other devs. I began rebuilding current versions of libraries when they were compatible. I would like your approval to do the following:
deepseq 1.1.1.0 -> 1.1.0.1 mtl 1.1.0.2 -> 1.1.1.0
personally, I am all for it. I'd very much like to have GHC7, and those updates seem comparatively minor, so I'd say go for it! At the same time, I am a little concerned about the state of [extra]. There are problems that have been known for several weeks, yet they don't seem to get fixed. That makes me wonder about our priorities. The most annoying bug so far is that haskell-tar hasn't been built with --enable-shared. This means that no package that depends on haskell-tar -- such as haskell-archlinux -- can be built with --enable-shared. This is probably not a big issue for random ArchLinux users, but it sure does make my life inconvenient, because I'm trying to work with the latest version of our tool-chain, which sets --enable-shared by default. Also, several packages don't include Haddock documentation, such as haskell-regex-base, haskell-regex-compat, haskell-regex-posix, and haskell-hunit. Again, this is not exactly a show-stopper grade problem, but every so often I do work on a laptop without network access, and having the reference documentation installed locally on disk is quite helpful in that situation. I have reported those problems on this list before, and I have also filed bug reports in the ArchLinux tracker, but I cannot seem to get a response. So, if I had to choose between an ArchDev working on fixing those problems and an ArchDev working on GHC7 support, I'd rather have the problems in the existing package base fixed fist. Just my 2 cents ... Take care, Peter