>> There is tricky situation. LTS-5.0 in week (news on /r/haskell), > > *throws hands up in the air* How comes such important news is on > reddit? For example on the official stackage mailing list, or=A0 > >> and it >> will ship aeson-0.9, since 0.10 caused major havoc. Is it any way to >> downgrade package in sid? > > Only with horrible hacks, such as a version number "0.10really0.9", > which might break some of our team-specific tools, or adding an epoch > number in front, which we have to carry forever (but which our tools > support). Not sure which is favorable.
I fear word "forever". >> With this at hand, I would prefer wait for lts-5.0 and drop >> `relax-aeson-dependencies.patches`. WDYT? > > Well, we should still fix any outstanding problems that we can fix, who > knows if the stackage guys can deliver in time. Yes. I pushed some patches about gitit and there is more. > And next time, we should make better use of our tools to avoid such > problems: Prepare a large (i.e. LTS-bump) transition on a branch of the > package plan, then prepare the packaging on a branch of the packages > repo, using "dht make-all" to test this without affecting the archive, > and only when there are no problems there, merge the branches into > master and upload everything to the archive. Agree. -- Accept: text/plain, text/x-diff Accept-Language: eo,en,ru X-Keep-In-CC: yes X-Web-Site: sinsekvu.github.io
