On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 02:51:10PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 11:20:56PM +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 03:35:54PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > > > > > Now that Debian has an infrastructure to easily schedule unattented > > > > package rebuild (binNMU), I tend to think that it would be better if > > > > Haskell packages could benefit from it. > > > > > > I have a (proverbial) button to do a source upload, but I don't (AFAIK) > > > have a button to do a binNMU (or n binNMUs, where there are n arches). > > > I'm pretty sure (based on past experience) that n binNMUs will require > > > more time and effort than 1 source upload. > > > > Being subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for quite a while now, I have > > always seen RMs responsive to binNMU requests. The other problem, IMHO, > > is that _you_ have a button for your own package, but you don't have one > > for packages maintained by others. Or through the way of NMU, but that > > really means a lot of work (testing the package correctly, sending diff, > > etc). > > Lack of testing is another reason binNMUs are a bad solution, > incidentally. It would be better to do an untested source NMUs, so we at > least know it compiles, than untested binNMUs triggered by the RMs, IMO.
You made a point. :)
Even if there's no formal Haskell team, could we imagine to have some
kind of NMU agreement to handle compiler upgrades?
> > Maybe I wasn't clear enough. Why most packages currently cointains
> > "ghc6 (>= 6.6), ghc6 (<< 6.6+)" in their Build-Depends, instead of a
> > more straightforward "ghc6 (>= 6.4.2)" (or the first version needed)?
>
> The lower bound (ghc6 (>= 6.6)) is important when updating libraries at
> around the same time as updating a compiler, as you don't want the new
> packages building with the old compiler.
>
> The upper bound is probably not important.
I strongely suggest to drop it, then. :)
Cheers,
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