[bug#36807] Please merge wip-haskell-updates (Re: [bug#36807] remove obsolete broken haskell packages)

[Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net>]

Hi all, Timothy,

On 25. Jul 2019, at 15:29, Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com> wrote:
> Other than that, LGTM.  Thanks!  (Do you have commit access now or
> should I push these?)

I do have commit access now, but for the moment I’m keeping to the
branch wip-haskell-updates.

Thus, I’d ask you (or someone) to merge that (or the parts you deem
appropriate). I’ve incorporated your comments, and removed
ghc-packedstring. In addition, the branch incorporates some other
patchsets:

#36493: updating GHC-included haskell dependencies (this one is already
        in core-updates)
#36562: downgrade ansi-terminal to be compatible with the package set
#36663: adding elm compiler dependencies (just a few extra ghc packages)
#36692: GHC version 8.6.5 (just as a package for now, not used to build
        anything)
#36807: this bug report, removing three deprecated packages
no ticket: Skip tests for three Haskell packages that fail on i686 only
        (and seem harmless): ghc-trifecta, ghc-yaml, ghc-libmpd-haskell.

Cheers
Robert

> Hi Robert,
> 
> Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net> writes:
> 
>> This series removes some outdated packages that don’t build and
>> aren’t depend on.
> 
> I remember that we intended to remove these last year.  Indeed, Ricardo
> mentioned it when we were finishing up the upgrade to GHC 8.4:
> 
>    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-09/msg00330.html
> 
> Based on that, we could also get rid of “ghc-packedstring” if it doesn’t
> have any dependants.