On 2014-06-08 at 10:00:46 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: [...]

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I'm specifically looking for builds off of the 7.8 branch so I can start testing point releases.

Then I guess the easiest would be if Herbert would add that to his PPA.

Fwiw, there have been already 'ghc-7.8.3' packages in the PPA for about a week, which are snapshots of the upcoming 7.8.3 release (i.e. they correspond to the current ghc-7.8 Git branch).

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[2] And in case anyone's curious, restrictive upper bounds on transformers and template-haskell are preventing a build right now.

Hmm, it would be nice if cabal had a “best effort” mode where when some of the requested packages cannot be built it at least builds the rest.

Also, isn’t there a new flag to cabal to selectively ignore upper bounds? (I can’t find the documentation for the latest cabal-install online right now.)

You mean this one: | --allow-newer[=PKGS] Ignore upper bounds in dependencies on some | or all packages.