Re: haskell-debian vs. newest HaXml
Hello,
On 11 Sep 2009, at 14:11, John Goerzen wrote:
But the point is: we're here to make life easy for users, so
let's give them the HaXml 1.13 through squeeze and zap it after that.
I may be a bit late to the discussion, but I'm wondering if anything
we have in Debian requires the new HaXml? This should IMO be our
concern; as library maintainers we have a responsibility for our
rdepends and should endeavour to minimise the number of breaking
changes that we do. If a new, API incompatible, release of a library
comes out then we need to work out a transition plan with the rdepends
if we want to include it in Debian. Essentially I think that we
primarily have libraries included as a service to applications and
other libraries which depend on them and this should be the main
concern we have as maintainers. I do realise that the Haskell
situation is a lot different to (say) C; that we have a lot of end
users who write programs using the packaged libraries and so may
include them in Debian without a specific application consumer. But in
the cases where there are consumers, we should be careful what we do.
So I would recommend that we roll back until the new series is
declared stable and rdepends start migrating to the new API. I also
hope that upstream can make this situation more manifest on their
hackage page - having `cabal install haxml' install an unstable
version is surely an undesirable situation.
Regards,
Iain
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