Dear Simon, Am Sonntag, den 16.02.2014, 14:01 +0100 schrieb Simon Hengel: > Hi Joachim, > I'm planning to release a technology preview for Hspec 2.0 to Hackage. > I'd releases it as 1.99.0 and set the preferred versions for Hspec to < > 1.99 on Hackage. > > Distributors should not package 1.99.*. > > Does this approach cause any issues for Debian? (Say, do you take > Hackage's preferred versions into account when packaging?) currently, we are not very aware of preferred versions, so it might happen that someone accidentally package a non-preferred version. Can Cabal be instructed to not consider non-preferred versions, and print an error/warning otherwise? In that case, we could add that to our upgrade-planning-tool (which uses cabal). If you mention that something is not production ready in the package description, that would also have good chances of not slipping into Debian. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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