On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 10:59:17PM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote: > The .tar.gz packages are pristine and must not change, however > the .cabal file that is kept in the hackage index could change and that > information will be reflected both in the hackage website and just as > importantly for tools like cabal-install. So not only could the > maintainer fix urls or whatever but also adjust dependencies in the > light of test results. Consider the analogy to pristine tarballs and > debian or gentoo meta-data files. The former never changes for a > particular version, but the meta-data can be adjusted as the > distributors see fit.
So if Debian or Gentoo etc repackage one of these packages in their distributions, what is the pristine tarball that they use? _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe