The case for tweaking .cabal files of existing uploaded packages

Marc Weber marco-oweber at gmx.de
Sat May 29 13:24:05 EDT 2010


Excerpts from Daniel Fischer's message of Sat May 29 17:00:39 +0200 2010:
> On Saturday 29 May 2010 16:54:45, Niklas Broberg wrote:
> > >>> I would like to go
> > >>> further in future. In the new hackage server I would like to make it
> > >>> possible to edit -- to a highly limited degree -- the .cabal files
> > >>> of existing packages. This would mainly be for meta-data
> > >>> (descriptions, URLs, etc) but more interestingly to adjust version
> > >>> constraints if they are found to be too lax or too tight.
+1 from me.

To give you an idea what I had to patch in the past:
http://github.com/MarcWeber/haskell-nix-overlay/tree/master/patches/

Marc Weber



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