Because LTS must be stable. Although you can add some PPA with new versions of packages to your software sources list. --- Original message --- From: "Vlatko Basic" < vlatko.basic@gmail.com > Date: 14 October 2013, 13:28:21 Hi Danylo, I have 7.6.3 already, but I was wondering why the repository packages are not maintained. 12.04 is an LTS for 5 years, so I suppose many would stick to it for a longer time. br, vlatko -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] No upgrade of GHC version in Ubuntu repository From: Lizanets Danylo To: vlatko.basic@gmail.com Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Date: 14.10.2013 12:40 Hi vlatko, New versions of GHC are available in newer versions of Ubuntu (12.10, 13.04 etc.). I recommend you to download, build and install Haskell-platform from sources. Best regards, Danylo Lizanets  --- Original message --- From: "Vlatko Basic" < vlatko.basic@gmail.com > Date: 14 October 2013, 11:44:17 Hi Caffe, deb packages of GHC (and Haskell Platform) in Ubuntu's (LTS Precise, 12.04) "universe" are not upgrading at all. GHC package is almost two years old, still on version 7.4.1, and GHC site still recommends to use Haskell Platform from repository. Even kernel is upgrading more often, and one would expect it is much more difficult. :-) What would be the reason for that? Is it abandoned? Best regards, vlatko _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Hi, Am Montag, den 14.10.2013, 15:34 +0200 schrieb Vlatko Basic:

Looks like we're missing the point here. I did add the PPAs, and all is OK for me. :-)

LTS is a stable release, and yet many other apps get updated regulary, but GHC does not. GHC is not part of the system itself, it's just an app, like many others are. So I expected it to be updated regularly, as other do.

This way it looks like it is abandoned...

the problem is that if you update GHC, you’ll have to update lots of other packages, and rebuild all Haskell libraries. It’s difficult enough to target one release; supporting several would be a considerable amount of work to the maintainers. OTOH, it is not clear if they know that there is demand for it, and I don’t know Ubuntu’s release upgrade policies (Debian, for example, would not allow such an upgrade in a stable release), but maybe you should ask the maintainers of Haskell in Ubuntu? See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Teams/UncommonProgrammingLanguages/Haskell for a possibly up-to-date list of them. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata

Hi Simon, Thanks for that. I already have it on the list, and this one: ppa:fmarier/git-annex with many packages already precompiled. (if someone doesn't want cabal) br, vlatko -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] No upgrade of GHC version in Ubuntu repository From: Simon Hengel To: Vlatko Basic Cc: Lizanets Danylo , haskell-cafe@haskell.org Date: 14.10.2013 15:33

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 01:28:17PM +0200, Vlatko Basic wrote:

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I have 7.6.3 already, but I was wondering why the repository packages are not maintained. 12.04 is an LTS for 5 years, so I suppose many would stick to it for a longer time.

I added PPAs for GHC 7.6.3 recently. Feel free to use:

sudo apt-get --purge remove ghc sudo apt-get --purge remove cabal-install sudo apt-add-repository ppa:typeful/ghc-7.6.3 sudo apt-add-repository ppa:typeful/cabal-install sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ghc cabal-install

This assumes that you only want to install GHC and cabal-install with apt and everything else from Hackage.

Cheers, Simon