[Haskell-cafe] Re: Poll: Do you need to be able to build darcs from source on GHC 6.6?

"Jason Dagit" writes:

Debian is nice in some ways and it's really great that stable lives up to its name, but I am sad that Debian has such old software for so long.

Those two properties are strongly correlated. There is backports.org for cases where you want to cherry-pick a handful of packages for which stability is less important than newness. Of course, GHC 6.8 isn't on backports.org at present. That means either it's non-trivial to backport, or nobody has volunteered the time.