From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3556D15808B for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:18:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55D81E2A25; Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:18:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 31275E2A25 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:18:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from oystercatcher.gentoo.org (oystercatcher.gentoo.org [148.251.78.52]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 376053431D7 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:18:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by oystercatcher.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E39CC36 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:18:08 +0000 (UTC) From: "Matt Turner" To: gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Reply-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, "Matt Turner" Message-ID: <1727630237.4b1d1363d8435f975a91a6729b564341d304aaca.mattst88@gentoo> Subject: [gentoo-commits] data/gentoo-news:master commit in: 2024-09-29-haskell-destabilization/ X-VCS-Repository: data/gentoo-news X-VCS-Files: 2024-09-29-haskell-destabilization/2024-09-29-haskell-destabilization.en.txt X-VCS-Directories: 2024-09-29-haskell-destabilization/ X-VCS-Committer: mattst88 X-VCS-Committer-Name: Matt Turner X-VCS-Revision: 4b1d1363d8435f975a91a6729b564341d304aaca X-VCS-Branch: master Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:18:08 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply X-Archives-Salt: 18140193-ab3b-4246-9de1-d144460818b4 X-Archives-Hash: 2e528f0abde01e4f8b0cf7a637faff66 commit: 4b1d1363d8435f975a91a6729b564341d304aaca Author: Matt Turner gentoo org> AuthorDate: Fri Sep 27 01:46:56 2024 +0000 Commit: Matt Turner gentoo org> CommitDate: Sun Sep 29 17:17:17 2024 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=4b1d1363 2024-09-29-haskell-destabilization: Add news item Signed-off-by: Matt Turner gentoo.org> .../2024-09-29-haskell-destabilization.en.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+) 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 +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