Re: [Nix-dev] Should we update Haskell packages in release-15.09?

2015-11-17 Thread Peter Simons
Hi James, > How often are we seeing security vulnerabilities in Haskell packages? it's hard to say. I am not aware of anyone tracking vulnerabilities specifically for Haskell packages. I know that the 'tls' family of packages has had security relevant updates in the past, but I don't know how

Re: [Nix-dev] Should we update Haskell packages in release-15.09?

2015-11-17 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 11/10/2015 04:41 PM, Peter Simons wrote: > 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, I believe it's announced somewhere that it's fine to (optionally) push bugfix/maintenance -only updates as

[Nix-dev] Should we update Haskell packages in release-15.09?

2015-11-10 Thread Peter Simons
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

Re: [Nix-dev] Should we update Haskell packages in release-15.09?

2015-11-10 Thread James Cook
> 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 >