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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://peter-simons.myopenid.com/"
+ ip="77.184.15.65"
+ subject="Test-suite won't compile with GHC 7.4.x"
+ date="2012-02-28T17:39:59Z"
+ content="""
+The recent version requires GHC 7.4.x, but some dependencies for the test suite don't build with that compiler, i.e. the `testpack` library. Do you have any recommendation how to deal with that situation? I would like to update, but I would very much like to run the regression test suite, too.
+"""]]