[Haskell-cafe] I think we should stop "fixing" other people's packages on Hackage silently

[Joachim Durchholz]

People expect the version number to uniquely identify the version of the 
package, so I think the Hackage revision should be included in the 
version number.
If that means ugly version numbers: So be it, it's an incentive to tell 
upstream to update their code :-)

Am 22.06.2017 um 21:25 schrieb Benno Fünfstück:
> There is an X-Revision field in the cabal file, perhaps cabal-install 
> should display it more prominently ( is it even displayed at all right 
> now? )
> 
> https://hackage.haskell.org/package/happy-1.19.5/happy.cabal
> 
> 
> Joachim Durchholz <jo at durchholz.org <mailto:jo at durchholz.org>> schrieb 
> am Do., 22. Juni 2017, 21:08:
> 
>     Am 22.06.2017 um 18:14 schrieb Niklas Hambüchen:
>      > So I would welcome if we could make use of the "Hackage revisions"
>      > feature only in the utmost necessary cases, or even better,
>     never, and
>      > always make properly versioned releases, where a change to any file
>      > implies a bump of the version, so that one can clearly see if one is
>      > dealing with the unmodified upstream code or not.
> 
>     I'd like to recommend the approach taken by Linux distros: If the
>     package is modified vs. the original code, use a version numbering
>     scheme that clearly indicates both the original version and a "packaging
>     revision number".
>     https://hackage.haskell.org/package/happy-1.19.5/revisions/ with two(!)
>     updates should really be three revisions:
>         happy-1.19.5 (original version uploaded by Simon)
>         happy-1.19.5-hackage-1 (2015 update)
>         happy-1.19.5-hackage-2 (2017 update)
> 
>     The assumption here is that Simon will bump the version to happy-1.19.6
>     before uploading the fixed package.
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