Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage policy question

On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 12:09 +0200, Ketil Malde wrote:

Duncan Coutts writes:

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So we should think about how to make it less confusing. Perhaps like distributors use an extra revision number we should do the same. I had hoped that would not be necessary but that's probably not realistic.

If we go this route, it'd be nice to have a distinguishable syntax, like Gentoo's .rN, so that we don't have to remember whether it's digit four or five that signifies "administrative" changes.

Yes, it must be distinguished because we cannot constrain the upstream maintainers version policy. We do not know and should not care how many version places they use. Duncan