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diff --git a/2024-09-29-haskell-destabilization/2024-09-29-haskell-destabilization.en.txt b/2024-09-29-haskell-destabilization/2024-09-29-haskell-destabilization.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2dfc7cd --- /dev/null +++ b/2024-09-29-haskell-destabilization/2024-09-29-haskell-destabilization.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +Title: Haskell destabilization +Author: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> +Posted: 2024-09-29 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Installed: app-admin/haskell-updater +Display-If-Installed: app-arch/pack +Display-If-Installed: app-portage/hackport +Display-If-Installed: app-text/pandoc +Display-If-Installed: dev-haskell/* +Display-If-Installed: dev-lang/ghc +Display-If-Installed: dev-lang/whitespace +Display-If-Installed: dev-util/shelltestrunner +Display-If-Installed: dev-vcs/darcs +Display-If-Installed: dev-vcs/git-annex +Display-If-Installed: dev-vcs/git-repair +Display-If-Installed: net-mail/list-remote-forwards +Display-If-Installed: net-mail/mailbox-count +Display-If-Installed: net-misc/haeredes +Display-If-Installed: net-misc/hath +Display-If-Installed: x11-misc/xmobar +Display-If-Installed: x11-wm/xmonad +Display-If-Installed: x11-wm/xmonad-contrib + +Packaging Haskell software has proven difficult in Gentoo: many packages are +outdated, unstable versions have not been stabilized in nearly a year, and +stable versions are rather old. + +In an effort to reduce the load on the Haskell maintainers, stable keywords +will be removed from dev-haskell/* packages and their reverse dependencies on +October 1. + +Users with Haskell packages should add entries to their package.accept_keywords +for these packages to avoid issues rebuilding or upgrading them in the future. + +This change does not preclude stabilizing Haskell packages in the future. + +Haskell packaging is mostly taking place in the Haskell repository [1]. + +[1] https://github.com/gentoo-haskell/gentoo-haskell |