20 Jan
2015
20 Jan
'15
5:22 p.m.
On 2015-01-20 at 17:43:24 +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote: [...]
This can be achieved by editing the .cabal file, and Herbert has done so in at least one case. It's just a matter of making the constraints impossible, e.g. base > 1 && < 1. It could possibly be done more obviously or directly, e.g. adding a dep on something impossible (though note that we don't currently allow adding deps).
Fwiw, I've converged to using the following construct to blacklist a package version: library -- [reason why this package version had to be blacklisted] build-depends: base<0 [...rest of content...] IMHO this is somewhat obvious than any other unsatisfiable constructs Cheers, hvr