On 3 Dec 2012, at 11:35, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote: > > 2) there's a package text-foo which depends on 'text >= 0.10' (i.e. with no > upper bound), for which N versions exist on Hackage (all with > the same 'text >= 0.10' constraint): > > 0.1.0, 0.1.0.1, 0.1.0.2, 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.2, ...some more... , > 0.7.2.2, 0.7.2.3 > > 4) text-foo-0.7.2.3's .cabal file is updated server-side to have the > version constraint set to 'text >= 0.10 && text < 0.11' > > Alas, 4) isn't enough, as it leaves N-1 versions of text-foo with an > invalid version constraint
I don't understand why you suggest that only the most recently uploaded version of text-foo would have its cabal file updated on the server. If the scheme is going to work at all, it must update _every_ version of text-foo that could be affected. Is that an unrealistic expectation? Regards, Malcolm _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
