On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:14:34PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote: > A user noticed that gentoo's HAppS package was broken because the > upstream .tar.gz package had disappeared. Checking the hackage archive > it does indeed seem to have gone (except for some log files). > > Is this intentional or something gone wrong? I don't think we should be > removing tarballs, except where the package was uploaded in violation of > the upload policy. Certainly we want a mechanism to mark packages as > obsolete and drop them from the contents page but I don't think they > should be removed from the index tarball or the archive.
I think I removed it a while ago because Lemmih wanted it gone. But I agree that removing tarballs should be avoided, and I've tried to avoid doing that recently, except for NMU complaints. _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
