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

[lennart spitzner]

On 30/10/14 13:40, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
> Of course, arbitrarily just adding a fifth field will only work if the
> package is following PVP (i.e. using 4 version fields), and AFAIK
> there's no way to explicitly know/state that.

PVP does not mandate exactly 4 components; n>=3 is valid. (and of course
bumping (n+1) is not safe, as the maintainer might decide to publish a
new version that adds a new component.)