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Add debian 11 bullseye official support

Open AlistairB opened this issue 3 years ago • 7 comments

For the haskell docker images we want to support debian 11 bullseye. In terms of GHC, cabal and stack's debian 11 support the state of play is:

Therefore, once GHC ~~9.4.3~~ 9.6.1 (it has been postponed apparently) comes out we are good to add 9.6 line support for debian 11 excluding cabal.

cabal has support for x86_64-linux-deb10 and aarch64-linux-deb10, but does not include a release targeting debian 11. I have done some basic testing using cabal-install-3.8.1.0-x86_64-linux-deb10 in debian 11 and it appears to work. I have not tested cabal-install-3.8.1.0-aarch64-linux-deb10.

Can cabal add official support for debian 11?

AlistairB avatar Aug 14 '22 02:08 AlistairB

For x64, it’s as simple as copying the deb-10 and bumping the DOCKER_REV, I tried it here: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ulysses4ever/cabal/-/pipelines/55722. I can submit it as a PR if the higher rank is willing to include it in principle.

Aarch64 is less clear: GHC has just reverted (see the ticket you referenced).

ulysses4ever avatar Aug 14 '22 21:08 ulysses4ever

Good idea about deb11.

Mikolaj avatar Aug 15 '22 06:08 Mikolaj

Thanks, in terms of of the docker haskell images, we need both x64 + aarch64 to be able to release a deb11 version unfortunately. As you just release one image that should work for both.

Although just x64 is still a win I'm sure for other types of cabal users, so if you can release that easily you may as well.

AlistairB avatar Aug 17 '22 05:08 AlistairB

Hmm GHC aarch64 deb11 support seems to be now milestoned for 9.6.1 . Oh well, no rush on this ;)

AlistairB avatar Aug 17 '22 06:08 AlistairB

Any reason we can move on this, as Bullseye was released on September 20th?

tchoutri avatar Oct 09 '22 11:10 tchoutri

Is it included in https://gitlab.haskell.org/haskell/cabal/-/pipelines/58149? What else is needed?

Mikolaj avatar Oct 31 '22 13:10 Mikolaj

@AlistairB , aarch64 support for debian 11 was added in time for the 3.10.2 and 3.10.3 releases. E.g. https://downloads.haskell.org/cabal/cabal-install-3.10.3.0/cabal-install-3.10.3.0-aarch64-linux-deb11.tar.xz

To be transparent, I don't think this binary has been tested in CI at any point yet.

chreekat avatar Apr 24 '24 06:04 chreekat