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Readme: faq entry about why lts is on older ghc

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@ -88,6 +88,18 @@ The following describes at a high level the series of steps for processing
Frequently Asked Questions
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__Why is Stackage LTS still on an older version of GHC?__
Typically it takes some months from a new major ghc release before
the Haskell ecosystem supports it fully enough that we can push it
to a new stable Stackage major version release. The lag for minor ghc releases
should be less but it still requires extra work and there is usually
some delay, but this also allows for sufficient community testing before updating.
eg Currently there is a 8.10.2 issue with linking on Windows.
Once 8.10.3 is out and we are satisfied it is working well in Nightly
we will plan to move to release LTS 17 based on ghc-8.10.
__Why does Stackage have an older version of a package than Hackage?__
There are a number of answers to this question: