'temporary' package

[Greg Weber]

Hi Roman, I think it is great that you made a fixed package available in a
timely manner for the communtiy.

On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Roman Cheplyaka <roma at ro-che.info> wrote:

> * Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> [2014-05-11 21:39:30+0200]
> >  > I will continue to maintain my fork, as I don't want this situation
> >  > to repeat in the future.
> >
> > That doesn't make much sense to me, though. You've got what you wanted:
> > the patch you needed has been applied!
>
> Not quite. What I want is that this situation (package remaining
> uninstallable
> for a non-trivial amount of time) never happens again. I don't want to go
> through this process next time something breaks in 'temporary'.
>

Are you using cabal freeze?

There only seems like 2 situations where this event should be a problem.

1) As an application author you really want to upgrade exceptions to 0.6 in
your code base and can't wait 2 weeks for things to stabilize.
2) As a library author you really want to release an update that allows for
exceptions to 0.6

I am curious what the case is and if introducing cabal freeze could help
out.

Greg Weber
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