I just found out the hard way that Hackage has been modified to allow
minor edits of .cabal files without bumping the version number. This
is not an uncontroversial feature[1].
The current situation is particularly irritating since the changes
are reflected only on the web interface and the 00-index, but not in
the packages themselves.
The first victim of this is pandoc; the dependency on http-client in
1.13.1 has been changed. Previously it required a patch for
ArchHaskell, but it doesn't any longer. Well, that is, it doesn't
require one for creating the PKGBUILD (based on the 00-index), but it
does while building (naturally based on the tar-ball).
I'm currently thinking about possible solutions to this. Most likely
I'll have to pull in the .cabal from the 00-index into the package and
replace the one found in the tar-ball. However, I'd like to think
about it a bit more before deciding how to handle it.
So, the end result is that there won't be updates until I've had time
to modify cblrepo to handle this :-(
/M
[1]: https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/issues/52
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