[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Comments regarding ghc-testsuite_7.0.4-2_amd64.changes

[Joachim Breitner]

Dear Luca,

Am Dienstag, den 10.01.2012, 19:45 +0000 schrieb Luca Falavigna:
> just to understand the purpose of this package, is it supposed to be compiled
> only to perform some tests on Haskell compiler?

yes

> If so, is it really the best option? Wouldn't it be possible to run
> those checks on top of the compiler package instead?

That is not possible because it needs libraries that are not shipped
built together with the compiler, but rather in separate packages that
first need a working compiler package.

Also, given that the compiler already takes over a day to build on some
architectures, I’d prefer if this would not get longer.

See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/01/msg00130.html for the
full discussion.

Greetings,
Joachim

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