Advance warning to package authors of breakage

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at googlemail.com
Sun Nov 15 20:46:48 EST 2009


On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 00:47 +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:

> These packages all use "build-depends: base >= 3 && < 4"

Sorry, typo. Of course that should have been:

"build-depends: base >= 3 && < 5"

> Current versions of cabal-install choose base version 3 in this case,
> the new cabal-install will choose base version 4 in this case.

With the typo fix above this bit is now true. :-)


Sorry for the confusion.

Duncan




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