Re: On the Haskell Platform

Heinrich Apfelmus wrote:

With these principles in mind, imagine my surprise, then, to discover that the "Haskell Platform" on Ubuntu 12.04 includes GHC 7.4.1  http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/haskell-platform Clearly, this must be a fake Haskell Platform, because the latest real Haskell Platform is still at GHC 7.0.4 at the time of this writing. Unfortunately, my principle 1 is now rendered moot.

That Ubuntu package is just a direct port from Debian. So I am adding a CC to Joachim, our resident Debian packaging hero, hoping for comment on the issue. Thanks, Yitz