Just did a full run over hackage, building packages with ghc 6.8.2, bytestring 0.9.0.1 and cabal 1.4.1.. Several hundred packages built fine. The majority are relatively easy to fix, if the upstream authors can be contacted. The following could be marked broken, if we could do that. Easy: Doesn't support small-base: AGI libxml newbinary openafp StategyLib Catch classify collections compression dataenc derangement hogg hsc2hs 2006 hslogger hsns hsql lambdaFeed metaplug mime-string pointfree sat soegtk sparsecheck special-functors (needs base<2 !) suffixtree th-lift torrent udcode More work: Broken: BerkleyDB -- missing extra-libs at least dbus -- various things. encode -- type errors flippi -- depends on unreleased cgi version finance-treasury -- needs new hxt-filter (author has patch) HsPerl5-0.0.4 -- cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-Wl" HsSVN -- missing extra-libraries: svn Monadius -- missing: extra-libraries: glut shu-thing -- missing: extra-libraries: glut postgresql -- Too many parameters for class `MonadDatabase' probabilitymonads -- Illegal instance declaration sdl -- gcc: unrecognized option '-rpath' baskell -- missing modules bot -- Duplciate Instance cabal-setup -- type error cabal-tests -- Could not find module `Tests' cabalrpmdeps -- cabal type error clustertools -- missing constructors debian -- cabal type error dephhd -- type error hs-pgms -- missing modules network-rpca -- type error parsely -- missing -XFunctionalDependencies ports -- cpp errro postmaster -- (.text+0x1442): undefined reference to `EVP_mdc2' ? reify -- linker error reifyC roguestar -- Could not find module `Keymaps.CommonKeymap' slackbuild -- cabal innards lax -- cabal innards lhs2tex -- cabal innards rss -- needs haxml 1.3..<1.4 scenegraph -- source for Graphics.SceneGraph.SimpleViewport shell-pipe -- `GHC.Handle' does not export `openFd' srcinst -- module Dpkg missing state -- Setup: COPYRIGHT: copyFile: does not exist storablevector -- QC arbitrary missing Control.Monad.Instances truelevel -- Could not find module `TrueLevelArgs' type-int -- Could not find module `Data.Type.Sign' GHC error: WURFL --stack overflow on large file cedict -- stack oflow on 32k large list cpuid -- Error: suffix or operands invalid for `test' Depends on something hidden: HDBC-postgresql-1.1.4.0, Cabal version: >=1.2 && <1.3 Takusen cabal-upload regex-dfa regex-parsec regex-pcre regex-tdfa -- Don