<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Hi Joachim and debian haskell maintainers,<br><br style="" class="">I remember a while ago in some discussion you pointed out that without people working on arm* platforms the next upload on unstable will likely drop arm support because of build failures...<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">I tried to google a little bit, and *seems* that we can have two patches (one from Colin), that *might* bring arm back to experimental and ghc 7.8.<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">I don't know why they haven't been merged (the patch from colin has been included into 7.8.20140411-1 but according to buildd [1] it never got a chance to build yet).<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">The other patch should fix armel and upstream seems to have a milestone for
the fix [2], 7.8.3 version<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">Do you think is worth an upload and a try?<br style="" class="">Would be nice to have arm still supported on debian and derivates<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">[1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=ghc&arch=armhf<br style="" class=""><div style="" class="">[2] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8976</div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal" class="">thanks<br class="" style=""></div><div style="" class="">
<br style="" class="">Gianfranco<br style="" class="">
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