acme-everything: preferred and deprecated versions

Preferred and deprecated versions can be used to influence Cabal's decisions about which versions of acme-everything 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. [maintainers: edit]

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.

Stored information

acme-everything has no preferred version ranges.

Explicitly deprecated versions for acme-everything include: 2015.4.15

The version range given to this package, therefore, is <2015.4.15 || >2015.4.15

Versions affected

Green versions are normal versions. Yellow are those out of any preferred version ranges. Red are deprecated.

2015.4.15, 2015.4.15.1, 2015.5.4, 2015.5.4.1, 2017.7.10, 2018.11.18