On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 04:18:13PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> This seems to be a recurring problem, and I'm not sure how to deal with it.
> 
> Say we have hslogger, and MissingH.  MissingH build-deps and deps on 
> hslogger.
> 
> When hslogger gets a new version in its cabal file, GHC no longer sees it 
> when you try to use MissingH because it has a different version.  Then 
> MissingH has to be rebuilt, and in the meantime, things are broken.
> 
> Is there any nice automatic way to prevent this problem?

You can't prevent package versions going out of sync. However, I've
almost finished a new haskell-utils that makes version-specific cabal
package deps (as our policy says we should), which means that apt won't
let you install mismatched packages.


Thanks
Ian


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