Transitive version bump/update of dependents?
The haskell-numeric-prelude package needs an update to the new version to build, which requires an update to the haskell-utility-ht package. Is there a tool for bumping the version numbers / checking for newer versions of all the packages that transitively depend on those that would need to be rebuilt? Or do we even need to worry about that right now, as with the upgrade to GHC / Haskell Platform, they're assumed to have removed all Haskell packages anyway, and the version it's at right now won't build, so no one can have packages that depend on this installed under GHC7? -Leif Warner
Hi Leif,
Is there a tool for bumping the version numbers / checking for newer versions of all the packages that transitively depend on those that would need to be rebuilt?
my repository https://github.com/peti/arch-haskell contains the program scripts/reverse-dependencies.hs, which can list all users of a given package. I use it to determine which packages need their $pkgrel bumped after an update.
Or do we even need to worry about that right now [...]?
Yes, I think we do. The package 'haskell-utility-ht' has already been re-built with GHC 7.0.2, and it has been uploaded to the binary repository. If that package is updated, its users need their $pkgrel bumped. Take care, Peter
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