[ANN] New release of SBV (v13.6)
Haskell Community [Unofficial]
March 4, 2026
andreasabel:
> Categorically deprecating all versions but the latest effectively achieves nothing.
Agreed!
As a minor note, Hackage has both deprecated and preferred versions. For example the HaskellNet package has version 0.5.2 deprecated and all versions <0.5.2 non-preferred. The Hackage documentation says:
> Preferred and deprecated versions can be used to influence Cabal’s decisions about which versions of PKG to install. If a range of versions is preferred, it means that the installer won’t install a non-preferred package version unless it is explicitly specified or if it’s the only choice the installer has. Deprecating a version adds a range which excludes just that version. All of this information is collected in the preferred-versions file that’s included in the index tarball.
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> If all the available versions of a package are non-preferred or deprecated, cabal-install will treat this the same as if none of them are. This feature doesn’t affect whether or not to install a package, only for selecting versions after a given package has decided to be installed. Entire-package deprecation is also available, but it’s separate from preferred versions.
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