10 Sep
2008
10 Sep
'08
5:26 a.m.
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 10:59:17PM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
The .tar.gz packages are pristine and must not change, however the .cabal file that is kept in the hackage index could change and that information will be reflected both in the hackage website and just as importantly for tools like cabal-install. So not only could the maintainer fix urls or whatever but also adjust dependencies in the light of test results. Consider the analogy to pristine tarballs and debian or gentoo meta-data files. The former never changes for a particular version, but the meta-data can be adjusted as the distributors see fit.
So if Debian or Gentoo etc repackage one of these packages in their distributions, what is the pristine tarball that they use?