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Re: Provides/Depends hash



Hi,

HAm Sonntag, den 16.08.2015, 14:27 +0000 schrieb Dmitry Bogatov:
> Why do we shorten hash of package from 32 digits to 5?

to keep the package names reasonably short, and not to increase the
size of the Packages file too much.

> Seems, it caused collision some time before.

It has? I would be very surprised by that.

>  Should I reimplement this logic in dh-haskell?

I don’t see a need...

Greetings,
Joachim

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