packdeps (Part 2)

My previous blog entry on packdeps presented a small script that uses the packdeps CLI to check all Haskell projects in the current directory for outdated dependency bounds. I still use this script regularly, but I have since decided to publish more projects on Hackage, so those projects are now also checked by the web service and reported via an RSS/Atom feed. This blog entry is a quick overview of the current status.

Two of the package versions reported are deprecated. They do not show up when using my script because I use the --preferred flag, but this flag is (IMHO unfortunately) not used by the web service. There is already an issue about this. Both of the deprecated package versions were deprecated because a major version bump was not necessary, so the major version release was deprecated and the code was re-released with a minor version bump.

I also have many packages that do not yet support transformers-0.6.0.4. I am unfortunately not able to support it yet because dependencies use mtl, and the latest release of mtl does not yet support it. I found an issue about the next release, which has been delayed for quite some time.