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

[Sven Panne]

2014-10-30 12:08 GMT+01:00 Tom Ellis
<tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2013 at jaguarpaw.co.uk>:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:01:09PM +0100, Peter Simons wrote:
>>  > We could as well say that Hackage generates
>>  >
>>  >   ap-1.0.0.0.1
>>  >   ap-1.0.0.0.2  -- for the next dependency fix
>>
>> That would be one possible solution, yes. Personally, I think these kind
>> of version numbers are a bit silly, so I would prefer to append a tag,
>> but I don't feel strongly about that.
>
> How would this be any different from just uploading a new version with an
> updated cabal file?

>From a user perspective it wouldn't be different and it shouldn't be.
>From a maintainer/trustee POV it's just a convenience feature, which
is OK. Having said that, I think that automatically bumping the minor
version number would be the right thing to do. Breaking reproducible
builds is a horrible idea.