Re: 'temporary' package

Hi Roman, I think it is great that you made a fixed package available in a timely manner for the communtiy. On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:

* Peter Simons [2014-05-11 21:39:30+0200]

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I will continue to maintain my fork, as I don't want this situation to repeat in the future.

That doesn't make much sense to me, though. You've got what you wanted: the patch you needed has been applied!

Not quite. What I want is that this situation (package remaining uninstallable for a non-trivial amount of time) never happens again. I don't want to go through this process next time something breaks in 'temporary'.

Are you using cabal freeze? There only seems like 2 situations where this event should be a problem. 1) As an application author you really want to upgrade exceptions to 0.6 in your code base and can't wait 2 weeks for things to stabilize. 2) As a library author you really want to release an update that allows for exceptions to 0.6 I am curious what the case is and if introducing cabal freeze could help out. Greg Weber