On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 12:38 +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> Claus Reinke wrote:
> > If packages are patched without any change in version number,
> > bad things can happen if one tries to cabal install additional packages
> > onto such a patched ghc.
> > 
> > At the moment, that seems to be the case for array and containers,
> > which were adjusted following the syb split, without changes in version
> > number (containers also seems to have gained some exports, foldrWithKey
> > and the like, again without version bump). Could this please be fixed?
> 
> Yes - the policy should be that we bump version numbers according to the 
> PVP as soon as an API change occurs.

The main thing from the pov of cabal-install is changes to dependencies.

Duncan

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