GHC 7.10

Summary

Update Fedora's version of the GHC Haskell compiler to version 7.10.

Owner

Name: Jens Petersen
Email: petersen@redhat.com
Release notes owner:

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora 24
Last updated: 2015-11-18
Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

GHC 7.10 is major new version of the de facto standard Haskell compiler released in 2015. This change involves updating ghc and associated packages and updating and rebuilding all the Haskell packages in Fedora built with ghc.

Benefit to Fedora

Update Fedora to the latest major stable version of GHC with many bugfixes and enhancements.

Scope

Proposal owners:
- Create a Koji f24-ghc side tag for building all the packages, including also secondary architectures
- Update ghc and ghc-rpm-macros
- Update and rebuild all the Haskell packages in the side tag
- Once building is complete move all the side tag builds to Rawhide (before F24 branches)

Other developers: None

A few packages outside the Haskell SIG may need an update to build with ghc-7.10, but the Haskell SIG can provide assistance if needed.

Release engineering: Sidetag and secondary architecture building will need assistance from release-engineering.
- List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Policies and guidelines: None

Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

Users will simply be upgraded to the new package versions: they may have to recompile their projects with the new version of ghc.

How To Test

dnf install ghc cabal-install pandoc
dnf install ghc-*-devel
cabal update and cabal install yesod

User Experience

User will be able to use the latest stable version of ghc with many improvements and enhancements.

Dependencies

None

Contingency Plan

Contingency mechanism: Stay with current version packaging
Contingency deadline: Beta freeze
Blocks release? No

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