On 2008 Sep 10, at 17:51, Duncan Coutts wrote:
dependent packages don't get confused when it's re-released. If we're considering modifying hackage's versioning, we should probably decide if we want/need this now instead of having to add it in later when something major goes *boom*.
We've thought about this and we think we do not need epoch numbers since we're in the lucky position of doing the upstream versioning.
Are we? I think the package author has final say if a package needs to be backed off, and any packages released between the rollback and the next release with dependencies on the backed-off package will be problematic, no matter how draconian hackage's version checking is. (This is a different situation from datecode versions as in the trac ticket.) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH