following Stackage

[Jens Petersen]

Hi Ben,

> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 00:12:45 -0400, Jens Petersen wrote:
> > There are still about 80 of our packages not (yet) in
> > Stackage: http://paste.fedoraproject.org/246720/43753298/
> 
> This is more up to upstream than us :/ . I guess we could ask upstreams
> to get on with stackage?

Right.  Though upstream doesn't strictly have to be the stackage owner,
though I think that should be preferred.

> > I think currently we are just tracking Stackage Nightly
> > but in the future we may want to track LTS or a specific
> > LTS major/minor version even.

(Actually nightly is a "worse" choice since it is currently on ghc-7.10.1,
so we should be following LTS!)

> I think once Beta hits, move from nightly to LTS. An LTS version can be
> determined closer to release then stick with that.

Sounds reasonable, however it needs code/config changes to anitya.
It might simpler just to track a major LTS version instead:
eg currently LTS-2, then we could decide when to switch
major LTS version in line with the Fedora development schedule.
I think LTS 3 will come out before long, and we will need it
for ghc-7.10.

> > So from now on when packaging, please use the latest version
> > from Stackage not Hackage when available: I guess I should
> > update cabal-rpm to do that. And when registering new packages
> > in release-monitoring.org, please use the Stackage backend
> > instead of Hackage when your package is included in Stackage.
> > Also particularly when updating packages
> > please follow the package version in Stackage as far
> > as possible not the latest version in Hackage.
> > This should reduce the risk of revdep breakage when
> > updating packages.
> 
> Have the existing watches been updated to use stackage?

Yes, they should all be updated. :)
Let me know if you notice any problems or abnormalities.

Anitya still puts the Hackage url into bugzilla which is probably confusing.
I should change that I think though stackage.org does not crosslink
to Hackage - something I would like it to do.

Jens