[Haskell-cafe] How much time until dependencies are rebuilt in hackage?

[Duncan Coutts]

On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 17:31 -0200, Felipe Lessa wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 01:47:04PM -0200, Maurí­cio CA wrote:
> > Suppose package B depends on A. If a new
> > version of A is uploaded to hackage, how much
> > later package B will be rebuilt (either to show
> > a problem with the new version or to solve a
> > problem with a previous version of A)?
> 
> I would guess "never", but don't quote me on that ;).

That's the correct answer!

People who think this is a bad state of affairs can help out with the
new server implementation (code.haskell.org/hackage-server).

Duncan