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

[Bardur Arantsson]

On 2017-06-22 21:07, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> 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.

+1000

Regards,