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## Versioning policies
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- Version numbers should always be three components
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- Release candidates should be numbered with the patchlevel preceding their release. For instance, the first release candidate for 8.0.1 should be versioned 8.0.0-rc1
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- Release candidates should be numbered with the patch-level preceding their release. For instance, the first release candidate for 8.0.1 should be versioned 8.0.0-rc1
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## Test policy
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N.B. the `lndir` utility required by `make sdist` is provided by `xutils-dev` on Debian.
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## Sending it to binary packagers
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We are lucky to have a dedicated set of contributors who build binary distributions for platforms which GHC HQ does not handle. Since 8.0.1-rc3 our policy has been to provide source distributions to binary packagers seven days before the final release. We do this in order to put these externally-provided distributions on equal footing with the GHC-HQ-provided distributions.
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## Making the binary builds
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