Yeah, we started compressing the IDs so that they take less
length.  Is there something we can do to make things easier
for packagers?  In general, these identifiers are supposed
to be treated as opaque.

Edward

Excerpts from Joachim Breitner's message of 2016-07-01 06:16:24 -0400:
> Hi Edward,
> 
> Am Freitag, den 01.07.2016, 09:54 +0000 schrieb Clint Adams:
> > When building tf-random with ghc 8, an id of
> > 
> > tf-random-0.5-4z8OJUaXC1FRNfrLPFWAD
> > 
> > is produced.  Since this is the wrong length, this breaks
> > Dh_Haskell.sh .
> > 
> > Can someone explain what's happening and what should be done instead?
> 
> previously, we (Debian Haskell packagers) could rely on package hashes
> to be 32 characters. Has this changed with GHC-8 somehow?
> 
> Greetings,
> Joachim
> 

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