[Haskell-cafe] Re: package maintainers: updating your packages to work with GHC 6.8.1

Duncan Coutts wrote:

flag splitBase description: Choose the new smaller, split-up base package. library if flag(splitBase) build-depends: base >= 3, containers else build-depends: base < 3

This is also a good time to add upper bounds to dependencies, in accordance with the package versioning policy: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Package_versioning_policy For instance, with accurate dependencies the above would become flag splitBase description: Choose the new smaller, split-up base package. library if flag(splitBase) build-depends: base >= 3.0 && < 3.1, containers >= 0.1 && < 0.2 else build-depends: base >= 2.0 && < 3.0 Cheers, Simon