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

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Tue Jun 27 17:51:51 UTC 2017


On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 1:10 AM, Andrew Cowie <istathar at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 at 14:10 Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <
> ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The problem being that Data.Version has deprecated the tags field,
>
>
> So, undeprecate it.
>

Only if you can define a sensible behavior for it; the main reason for
deprecating it, as I understand it, is its semantics were never defined and
it could therefore never be actually used for anything.

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