update on cabal-rpm-0.8 and ghc-7.6.3

[Jens-Ulrik Petersen]

Hi, it is a while since I last posted an update.

Firstly cabal-rpm-0.8.0 with the new revised packaging templates
is now in updates-testing.  Basically it seems to be working ok
though I am planning to do a minor release soon with a few small
tweaks from testing with updating our packages for rawhide.

I have a script to help me do that - it can update most
packages (at least those without C library builddeps) completely.
It should be useful also for updating open package reviews
to the latest approved packaging guidelines.

http://petersen.fedorapeople.org/update-to-cblrpm-0.8.sh

Try it if you like or use the latest "cblrpm spec" and merge
the differences from *.spec.cblrpm if you prefer to compare
the changes explicitly.

ghc-7.6.3 and haskell-platform-2013.2 are in git and I am slowly
working through all 200+ packages updating them to latest releases
(where appropriate/possible) and building them locally to test.
Once it is all ready I will push it all to Rawhide with my rebuild
script for koji.

I would like to try to backport ghc-7.6.3 to F19 maybe after
it is released but I am not very confident right now about finding
time to do that.  I am also thinking of backporting ghc-7.4.2 to
EPEL-6 perhaps (currently it is on 7.0.4).

I think that is the main news for now.

Thanks to Shakthi for helping with some package reviews this week. :)

Jens

[Jens-Ulrik Petersen]

> ghc-7.6.3 and haskell-platform-2013.2 are in git and I am slowly
> working through all 200+ packages updating them to latest releases
> (where appropriate/possible) and building them locally to test.

I think I have finished updating all packages to the new
approved templates in git master branches.  There is no
urgency/need to backport the changes at this point.
> Once it is all ready I will push it all to Rawhide with my rebuild
> script for koji.

There are a few remaining build failures with ghc-7.6.3:

ForSyde
  happstack-server
  ghc-hledger-lib (hledger)
  cab
  cabal-dev
  leksah-server (leksah)

also git-annex needs to be bumped but that needs some additional new deps.

Any help with those would be appreciated.

I have submitted extensible-exceptions which was dropped from ghc-7.6
and Shakthi has kindly taken the review.  Once that is ready I hope
to start building shortly in rawhide.

Jens

[Jens-Ulrik Petersen]

More details on the failures:
> ForSyde

Missing module Language.Haskell.TH.Syntax.Internals
> happstack-server

UTCTime vs ClockTime mismatch
> ghc-hledger-lib (hledger)

hledger-lib-0.19.3 built but hledger-0.19.3 still needs shakespeare-text!
> cabal-dev

Fixed by patching Cabal and built cab too.
> ltk (leksah-server,leksah)

I will try a snapshot from git with ghc-7.6 fixes.
> also git-annex needs to be bumped but that needs some additional new deps.

At least SafeSemaphore is needed (also uuid for current releases)

[Jens-Ulrik Petersen]

> More details on the failures:
> > ForSyde
>
> Missing module Language.Haskell.TH.Syntax.Internals

This module is gone from template-haskell-2.8.0 but
latest darcs seems to build ok.
> > happstack-server
>
> UTCTime vs ClockTime mismatch

fixed in master branch
> hledger-lib-0.19.3 built but hledger-0.19.3 still needs shakespeare-text!

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=838780 ;)   ***
> > ltk (leksah-server,leksah)
>
> I will try a snapshot from git with ghc-7.6 fixes.

I backported ghc-7.6 patches from git and built leksah locally now.
> > also git-annex needs to be bumped but that needs some additional new deps.
>
> At least SafeSemaphore is needed (also uuid for current releases)

Someone needs to submit this.  Ben: do you want to or shall I?   ***

Jens