Hi, Am Montag, den 03.10.2011, 13:27 +0200 schrieb Herbert Valerio Riedel:
On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 13:18 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
I’d like to propose that the package (shown by "ghc-pkg field <pkg> id" and used by "ghc-pkg field <pkg> depends") should only consist of the first three components of the package version, not all of them.
...would this affect the ability to declare version constraints that use more than the first 3 components? E.g. would the following Cabal statement
Build-depends: aeson >=0.3.2.12 && <0.4
still work (and force at least version 0.3.2.12 of aeson to be used)?
yes, all other version-related machinery (dependencies in Cabal packages, hackage stuff etc) still work. I am only talking about the packages as registered with ghc-pkg, not the packages as specified by .cabal. In distribution-lingo, the former are binary packages and the latter are source packages. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de | nomeata@debian.org | GPG: 0x4743206C xmpp: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://www.joachim-breitner.de/