[Haskell-cafe] Hackage inconsistent? (pandoc.cabal in 1.13.1)

[Erik Hesselink]

This is possible because there's a feature on the new hackage to allow
(partial) editing of the cabal file. See e.g. here [1]. This can be
useful for relaxing or tightening version bounds.

Erik

[1] https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/issues/52

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
> It seems pandoc 1.13.1 package on hackage has gotten into an
> insonsistent state.  I just noticed this strange situation with the dependency
> on http-client:
>
> pandoc.cabal at [1] has
>
>   if flag(https)
>      Build-Depends: http-client >= 0.3.2 && < 0.5,
>                     http-client-tls >= 0.2 && < 0.3,
>                     http-types >= 0.8 && < 0.9
>      cpp-options:   -DHTTP_CLIENT
>
> pandoc.cabal found in [2] has
>
>     if flag(https)
>      Build-Depends: http-client >= 0.3.2 && < 0.4,
>                     http-client-tls >= 0.2 && < 0.3,
>                     http-types >= 0.8 && < 0.9
>      cpp-options:   -DHTTP_CLIENT
>
> How can something like this even happen?
>
> /M
>
> [1]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc-1.13.1/pandoc.cabal
> [2]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc-1.13.1/src/pandoc.cabal
>
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