[Haskell-cafe] Re: Why cabal forces reinstallation of happstack-utils?

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

Henning Thielemann <schlepptop at henning-thielemann.de> writes:
> I meant it the other way round: Given that package X-a.b.c.d does not
> compile due to dependencies that turn out to be too restricted, then I
> could relax the dependency version bounds in X.cabal. If I also increase
> X's version to a.b.c.d+1, then cabal-install should be happy.

Yes, that should suffice.  You'll have to build that patched version
yourself though.

Note that a better way of doing it is to change the version to
"a.b.c.d.1", in case upstream releases an "a.b.c.d+1" version.

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