Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage inconsistent? (pandoc.cabal in 1.13.1)

On 30 October 2014 22:09, Erik Hesselink wrote:

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Peter Simons wrote:

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aren't very important. What is important is that it's possible to distinguish the edited version from the original one. As of now, users cannot tell which variant of the package they've installed.

Why is this important? I believe there is no difference between two revisions after they're installed, at least not currently, since you're only allowed to edit dependency version ranges, and perhaps some informational fields.

* For people doing cabal -> foo converters to know that there _is_ a newer version * "Oh, wait, I can't update the version of library foo because I've got the latest available version of bar and it doesn't support the new version of foo" without knowing there's a (pseudo-) newer version which _does_ allow the newer version of foo.

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