Hi folks, I've prepared an update of the Haskell package set for the release-15.09 branch [1], but I'm unsure whether to merge it or not. What is our policy with regard to this matter? Do we update Haskell packages in release branches or don't we?
The problem I see is that the normal approach of "update packages only if it's relevant for security" is really hard to pull off in practice, because Haskell package versions tend to be crazy interdependent, and no-one really knows the smallest possible set of updates that we should make. So it feels like an update-all-or-nothing situation here. Users of the LTS package sets would certainly benefit from an update while risking very little in terms of potential breakage. Changes to the haskellPackages set, however, are more intrusive and might affect users adversely, which sort-of defeats the point of having a stable release branch in the first place. How do others feel about this issue? Best regards, Peter [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/10941https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/10941 _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
