[Fedora-haskell-list] [Bug 746325] No way to get backtraces without installing the whole development files

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746325

Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com> changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |MODIFIED

--- Comment #3 from Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com> 2011-10-15 06:02:05 EDT ---
Prof packages have always required devel packages:
there is no dependency regression wrt to profiling with this change.

Note also that profiling is different to debugging.
GHC profiling can give you information about time and space
usage of a program (built with profiling), which is normally
related to performance analysis not debugging.
Note also that programs have to be rebuilt explicitly
completely with profiling enabled in order
to get profiling information, so this is not that cheap.

The main difference now is that we get profiling
libraries installed with devel packages.  This change
was introduced to F16 in May 2011 to reduce the large number
of subpackages and simply build dependencies and packaging,
so I see this as a step forward.  But if you have more
concrete concerns I would like to hear them.  You may also
want to subscribe to the haskell-devel list if you wish
to follow Fedora Haskell development more closely.
In future I will try to cc announcements of large
Haskell packaging changes also to devel list.
Noone on the haskell-devel list has complained to
date anyway yet about this change.

The ghc-rpm-macros change has already been in F15
for quite a while and all new updates built for F15
don't have prof subpackages either (the same is also
true for F14).  Since F16 has been without prof subpackages
now for 5 months and it seems stable and working well
I thought it was about time also to push ghc with merged
prof subpackages to F15.

I hope this explains the background a bit.

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