Wow, I thought this was a joke at first. HVRs work is terribly useful for enabling old and new versions of GHC to work with hackage, and I've very much appreciated the build reports he generates.

I'm sure he'd be happy to leave packages alone for anyone who prefers their packages remain broken.

Thanks hvr for fixing the dozens and dozens of versions of just the lens package in order to sort the base-4.8 rollout in particular that would have taken an age to do manually.


On Sun, Jan 18, 2015, 5:00 PM Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Vincent Hanquez <tab@snarc.org> wrote:
Lots of people would be *horrified* to download some {c,c++,python,ruby,...} library-a.b.c.tar.gz and found anything changed inside without changing the exact name for it.

Funny thing, that, because it happens pretty often and packagers have to have "silent update" (upstream silently repackaged without changing the version) rules to deal with it.


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