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