new debian packages and archive: haskell experimental

Greetings, I've set up a Debian archive (apt source) for experimental Haskell packages and backports. For instance, in the "unstable" section, you might find bleeding edge packages which will eventually be uploaded to Debian if they work (like the arrow preprocessor). In the "stable" section, you'll find ghc6 and newer versions of ghc5 than what you'll find in the official Debian archives (thank Ian Lynagh for the ghc work). See the last section of the Debian Haskell User's Wiki Page for more info including information about how you can contribute packages: http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/DebianUsers People using Debian Stable (woody) can install ghc6 by adding this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file: deb http://www.syntaxpolice.org/haskell-experimental/ stable/ then run "apt-get update && apt-get install ghc6" (perhaps these instructions can be included on ghc6's web page?) If you're running anything besides stable, you know what to do :) peace, isaac

What's the difference between the ghc6 packages provided by your archive and the ones currently in Debian unstable? Abe

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 09:28:32PM -0400, Abraham Egnor wrote:
What's the difference between the ghc6 packages provided by your archive and the ones currently in Debian unstable?
You can't install the unstable packages on a stable system (too old a libc6 for one thing). These packages are just recompiled for stable, they aren't functionally different. Thanks Ian
participants (4)
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Abraham Egnor
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Ashley Yakeley
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Ian Lynagh
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Isaac Jones