Proposal: Changes to the PVP

[Adam Bergmark]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com>wrote:

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> But as has been mentioned elsewhere, the accidental uploads is far worse
> than it seems at first, since cabal can backtrack and continue using the
> bad version! If I upload foo-1.0.0.1 that mistakenly says it works with bar
> 1.1, and then issue a point release foo-1.0.0.2 that puts the upper bound
> back on bar, cabal will no longer get any PVP upper bound benefits, since
> it will simply try to use foo-1.0.0.1.
>
>
>
 Isn't this fixed to a large degree by deprecating the bad version on
hackage? I also hope the library maintainer would release foo-1.0.0.3 that
properly builds with bar 1.1. This can still cause issues, but I think it
should be solved with tooling.
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