Hi zimoun, > Is it a manual in-place replacement? Or is it an automatic in-place > update by Hackage infrastructure? Or do I miss a point? > > In all cases, these revised Cabal files are not archived elsewhere than > in Hackage, right? The question is thus, where could we archive them? > > Note that the both items have the same store-address hash > (/gnu/store/rj33x41i86vgw6c0iwffzwrgzrib1shb-ghc-lucid-2.9.12.1-1.cabal) > but not the same content hash. fear not, this is a mistake on our side – mine in particular. `git blame` indicates the package was updated in my last big Haskell bump as commit b97f549b14402421fcfb360ddd4cff7de93b9af0. And while I updated the version number, I did not touch #:cabal-revision, which is obviously a mistake. Unfortunately we chose to encode this information into arguments and not the version and so this happens (alot), because – alas – `guix refresh` touches the version only, but not #:cabal-revision.
As for Haskell/Hackage/Stackage: All of their .cabal files are versioned and never overwritten. I think they also keep them permanently. Cheers, Lars
