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haskell-platform package

  1. Bug #1047678
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Comment 2 for bug 1047678

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Ben Hilburn (bhilburn) wrote : Re: version numbers

This is a really obnoxious decision, and has actually resulted in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail not having a haskell-platform package, because the raring package for GHC doesn't work with the previous or current version of the Haskell Platform.

The dev deleted the entire haskell-platform package in April, saying that a new "platform" package wasn't ready, but it is now, and that doesn't work with the currently packaged version of GHC:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/raring/i386/haskell-platform

http://www.haskell.org/platform/linux.html

Ubuntu 13.04 users are now in the awkward situation of either not getting to use this, or having to build it from source. Because of the compiler mis-match, though, the devs are forcing users to download and compile a new version of the compiler manually, and then download and compile the haskell-platform manually.

http://askubuntu.com/a/316465/50942

This is pretty terrible, and is only going to lead to massive confusion and broken Haskell installs.