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From: "Francesco Colista" <francesco@bsod.eu>
Message-ID: <cdb47ea7d25823f6188e662293f5c276@bsod.eu>
Subject: Re: Remove haskell compiler (ghc) from alpine
To: "Natanael Copa" <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>, "Alpine development"
 <~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org>
Cc: "Olliver Schinagl" <oliver@schinagl.nl>, "Mitch Tishmack"
 <mitch.tishmack@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20211021133615.32f08070@ncopa-desktop.lan>
References: <20211021133615.32f08070@ncopa-desktop.lan>

21 ottobre 2021 13:36, "Natanael Copa" <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> wrote:=0A=
=0A> ## TL;DR=0A> =0A> ghc is blocking the 3.15 release, so I wonder if w=
e can remove=0A> the following packages:=0A> =0A> - community/gch=0A> - c=
ommunity/cabal=0A> - community/shellcheck=0A> - testing/pandoc=0A> - test=
ing/apostrophe=0A> =0A> ## longer explanation=0A> I have already spent wa=
y too many days on ghc and would prefer that=0A> someone else takes over =
or that we remove it.=0A=0AThanks Natanael for having took the time for t=
he long explanation.=0ALooking at the git log, does not seems that the ma=
intainer has done any contribution since 2017.=0AThe package has 9 patche=
s to make it work, so if nobody is willing to take care the burden of mai=
ntaining it, I would vote +1 to move it to unmaintained.=0A=0A.: Francesc=
o Colista