Copied from:
https://www.snoyman.com/blog/2017/12/dropped-packages-following-lts-10

tl;dr: Check this pull request
<https://github.com/fpco/stackage/pull/3140/files> to see if your package
was just removed from Stackage Nightly.

Stackage Nightly maintains a set of upper bounds to give package
maintainers a grace period between dependencies updating their APIs and
users needing to support the new versions. Keeping these upper bounds in
place indefinitely places a burden on the rest of the ecosystem needing to
keep support for older versions of packages. Therefore, the Stackage
Curator team will periodically drop these upper bounds, and in the process
must temporarily drop some packages.

Over the years, we've standardized on doing this drop immediately following
the release of a new major version of LTS Haskell
<https://github.com/fpco/lts-haskell#readme>. This allows maximum packages
to be included in an LTS release without imposing "bleeding edge"
requirements (something LTS Haskell tries to avoid doing).

And as you may have guessed: I'm writing this now since I just dropped a
bunch of upper bounds and blocked a number of packages on Stackage Nightly
:). If you'd like to see if your package was evicted, please check out the
relevant pull request <https://github.com/fpco/stackage/pull/3140/files>.
Some notes:

   - The haskell-src-exts upgrade caused the most downstream breakage
   - There were a *huge* number of upper bounds for http-types. Since this
   is the second time a major version bump occurred recently, I left this
   upper bound in place. More information is available on the http-types
   issue <https://github.com/fpco/stackage/issues/2976>.

Once dependencies are fixed, please send pull requests to reenable
packages. Everyone is welcome to do so, whether you're unblocking your own
package or someone else's.

PS: Merry Christmas to all those celebrating today.

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"haskell-stack" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
to haskell-stack+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to haskell-stack@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit 
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/haskell-stack/CAKA2JgLkQuO%3DcEPykA3mJ6c7ZPer--Mmc56vx19eyjTaw9nqEg%40mail.gmail.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

Reply via email to