[Haskell-cafe] security update practice?

[Bob Ippolito]

Adding a security fix in general is going to be tough since you'd have to
rebuild all of the packages that the user has that depend on that package
or else it would be instant cabal hell (which is basically why platform
releases work best with different compiler versions). One alternative would
be for the platform to add some artificial stuff to the GHC version so that
its package db doesn't clash with anything else…

On Wednesday, July 9, 2014, Alois Cochard <alois.cochard at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think it's an issue since I learnt that the platform can not be update
> on his own (need a new GHC version)...
>
> How can we integrate security fix in the platform?... We can't...
> On Jul 9, 2014 2:47 AM, "Mark Wotton" <mwotton at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mwotton at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> there was a security update to the underlying library to one of my
>> bindings last night (lz4) and it got me thinking - how do we handle
>> security updates as a community? I typically find out from IRC or
>> twitter now, which isn't particularly reliable. Might it be possible
>> to mark an update on Hackage as a security update rather than feature
>> update?
>>
>> cheers
>> Mark
>>
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