Hi, Am Montag, den 01.02.2010, 18:50 +0000 schrieb Adam D. Barratt: > On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 12:37 +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > Am Sonntag, den 31.01.2010, 15:51 +0000 schrieb Adam D. Barratt: > > > Whilst admitting to not knowing much about the haskell packaging > > > personally, would it be a large or intrusive patch to make > > > libghc6-xmonad-contrib-dev use a looser dependency so that it wouldn't > > > have to be updated again should there be the need for another binNMU of > > > xmonad in stable? > > > > > > In either case, please prepare an upload targetting "stable" in the > > > changelog and sent it to -release for approval. > > > > I relaxed the xmonad dependencies to allow both version numbers found in > > stable now (0.7-2, 0.7-2+b1), patch attached. Should I upload this? > > How tightly tied is xmonad-contrib to precise versions of xmonad? For > example, were the security team to release an update for xmonad > (probably as 0.7-2+lenny1) would xmonad-contrib need rebuilding to > handle the update, or would it just work? > > If the latter is the case then it would be preferable to allow the > dependencies to handle that, rather than needing another upload purely > to bump the dependencies again; e.g. "libghc6-xmonad-prof (>= 0.7-2), > libghc6-xmonad-prof (<< 0.7-3)". the latter is the case, and I see your point: This is why we have, since lenny, completely changed how haskell packages are handled. But a stable update is not suitable to change this, as they should be minimal changes. Also, all the haskell-* packages in stable share this problem and relaxing this issue for just one package does not help much, but reduces consistency. Better have one inconvenient situation for all haskell packages, than just for all but one which then needs special considerations. 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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