patch applied (cabal): Use "pkg == 1.2.*" as the version wildcard
syntax
Duncan Coutts
duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Tue Jul 29 12:30:21 EDT 2008
Tue Jul 29 08:16:12 PDT 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan at haskell.org>
* Use "pkg == 1.2.*" as the version wildcard syntax
Rather than "pkg ~ 1.2.*". This seemed to be the consensus.
The syntax "pkg == 1.2.*" means "pkg >= 1.2 && < 1.3" and it
is to encourage people to put upper bounds on api versions.
M ./Distribution/Version.hs -3 +3
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