<p>On Oct 1, 2012 10:39 PM, "Fabio Riga" <<a href="mailto:rifabio@gmail.com">rifabio@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Hi Magnus,<br>
><br>
> is there a reason for dropping those packages? If some package fail to<br>
> build in ghc 7.6 we will lost as well many packages in [haskell-extra].</p>
<p>The only reason is that they require non-obvious patches to build with GHC 7.6.</p>
<p>> I'm concerned especially about gtk, pandoc and wai/warp: they are needed<br>
> for packages like hakyll, gitit and the yesod suite among others.</p>
<p>Indeed, and especially removal of pandoc pains me a bit.</p>
<p>> If there aren't important reasons to switch to 7.6, could you please<br>
> wait a little more before make this change?</p>
<p>The goal is of course to re-add them ASAP. I don't mind waiting longer, but then I'm very unlikely to do any updates to [haskell], and instead put my efforts into [haskell-testing].</p>
<p> /M<br>
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