On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:47:31AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm a new maintainer and my first haskell package is haskell-curl > version 1.3.5-1 which my sponsor uplaoded on May 18th, a day before > Kari Pahula uploaded the new 6.10.3 compiler. > > Its my understanding that to kick off a rebuild of my package with > the new compiler I basically need to upload a new version. Now, if > the upstream version (1.3.5) hasn't changed, but the package > metadata has changed I should just increment the version from say > 1.3.5-1 to 1.3.5-2. > > However, if there has been neither an upstream version change, nor a > metadata change, is there some recommended way to signify this in the > package version number?
Hi Erik, I would just bump the version to 1.3.5-2 and note something like "rebuilt with the 6.10.3 compiler" in the changelog. I am guessing that the binary packages will automatically pick up new dependencies - which is somewhat akin to a metadata change to my mind. You could also consider a versioned build dependency on ghc6, but I am not sure what the preferred practice in debian-haskell is in that regard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
