Ryan Trinkle <ryan.trin...@gmail.com> writes: > I would strongly urge that any new tarballs be released under new names, > and that the old tarballs be kept in place. Changing existing tarball URLs > silently causes breakage for Nix, and, I would imagine, for any other build > systems that are particularly concerned with reproducibility. Nix packages > based on GHC use an SHA-256 hash of the tarball to check it when > downloading, which of course will be broken by any change, no matter how > minor. > I completely agree here; I avoid updating existing artifacts whenever possible.
Cheers, - Ben
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