[arch-haskell] Upgrading to monad-control-0.3

[Magnus Therning]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:12, Nicolas Pouillard
<nicolas.pouillard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 07:38:59PM -0800, Leif Warner wrote:
>>> I'm hoping the version of text in [extra] can be upgraded - I just
>>> left a comment on xmobar-git [1] that it's been marked outdated
>>> since last month, and is behind Haskell Platform.  It's blocking
>>> upgrade there, too.
>>>
>>> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44683
>>
>> Slightly off-topic, the version of text in the latest haskell-platform
>> still isn't the latest (0.11.1.5 vs. 0.11.1.12) so this situation is
>> bound to come about again in the near future.
>
> Indeed but I support the concept of the haskell-platform. It is too
> restrictive to only packages able to track the latest versions of
> their dependencies.
>
> I suggest we try this technique on one case first and the text package
> seems to be a good example. We could package the latest version of
> text and upgrade some package which depend on it.

I'm sorry, but what "technique" are you referring to here?

/M

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