Merge ghc6 6.8.2-2ubuntu1 from debian (unstable)

[Cody A.W. Somerville]

Binary package hint: ghc6

Please merge ghc6 6.8.2-2ubuntu1 from debian (unstable)

ghc6 (6.8.2-2ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian unstable, remaining changes:
    + add lpia to unregisterized builds in debian/rules, hence disabling
      object splitting as well (Adam Conrad who thanked Ian Lynagh).
    + add lpia to debian/ghc6_vars via debian/rules (Adam Conrad).
    + add manpage for runghc (Efrain Valles Pulgar), referring to
      LP bug #95985. Added: debian/runghc.man, and modified
      debian/rules.
    + Maintainer fields updated

 -- Cody A.W. Somerville <email address hidden> Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:50:06 +0000

ghc6 (6.8.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Apply upstream patch:
        Tweak the splitter
        Ian Lynagh <email address hidden>**20080116195612
        We were generating a label ".LnLC7", which the splitter was confusing
        with a literal constant (LC). The end result was the assembler tripping
        up on ".Ln.text".
    Closes: #466262.
  * Make an hpc symlink in /usr/bin. Closes: #461146.
  * Add a dep and build-dep on gcc >= 4:4.2 as we need the
    -fno-toplevel-reorder flag. Closes: #461332.
  * Put the right upstream source URL in debian/copyright.
    Closes: #465058.

 -- Ian Lynagh (wibble) <email address hidden> Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:32:52 +0000

[StefanPotyra (sistpoty)]

hm... this one was on my list as well, but first I wanted to get ghc6 built on sparc (I guess, I need to ping infinity harder, see bug #194912).

The most worthwhile but also dangerous thing in the new version is the splitter patch. What measures did you take to make sure that this version of ghc6 is still ABI compatible to the current one (we certainly don't want a new ghc6 transition at this point)?

[Cody A.W. Somerville (cody-somerville)]

Hi Stefan,

 I was going to contact you to see the best way to proceed forward.

 Attached is debdiff ghc6_6.8.2-2.dsc ghc6_6.8.2-2ubuntu1.dsc > ghc6_6.8.2-2ubuntu1.debdiff

Thanks,

Cody A.W. Somerville

[Cody A.W. Somerville (cody-somerville)]

After our discussion today in #ubuntu-motu, I have successfully built haskell-xhtml and haskell-cgi against the new ghc6 package. Subscribing ubuntu-universe-sponsors.

[StefanPotyra (sistpoty)]

debdiff looks sane, just test-building. If done I'll upload. Thanks!

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

Has this already been uploaded?

[Cody A.W. Somerville (cody-somerville)]

Yup.

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

Great, unsubscribing ubuntu-universe-sponsors. Thanks for contributing to Ubuntu!