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Document removal of LTS Haskell package sets in 16.09 release notes.

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This patch closes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/14897.
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@ -69,6 +69,25 @@ following incompatible changes:</para>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Previous versions of Nixpkgs had support for all versions of the LTS
Haskell package set. That support has been dropped. The previously provided
<literal>haskell.packages.lts-x_y</literal> package sets still exist in
name to aviod breaking user code, but these package sets don't actually
contain the versions mandated by the corresponding LTS release. Instead,
our package set it loosely based on the latest available LTS release, i.e.
LTS 7.x at the time of this writing. New releases of NixOS and Nixpkgs will
drop those old names entirely. <link
xlink:href="http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2016-June/020585.html">The
motivation for this change</link> has been discussed at length on the
<literal>nix-dev</literal> mailing list and in <link
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/14897">Github issue
#14897</link>. Development strategies for Haskell hackers who want to rely
on Nix and NixOS have been described in <link
xlink:href="http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2016-June/020642.html">another
nix-dev article</link>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shell aliases for systemd sub-commands
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/15598">were dropped</link>: