I noticed that cabal will parse, but ignore, version tags. For example, the
two lines appear to be equivalent in how a package gets built:
Version: 1.1Version: 1.1-alternate
Arguably this is not the right thing to do, as it changes the semantics of
versions. For example, I can install version 1.1 of a package without
replacing version 1.0, but if I try to install version 1.0-alternate, I will
actually replace version 1.0.
I'm not against discarding version tags, but I'd like to know if there's a
rationale for _silently_ discarding them.
-heatsink
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