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725	Distinguish speculative and required build-depends upper bound	ezyang		"When a package adds a build-dependency on another package, it's good form to follow the Package Versioning Policy and add a speculative upper bound that is x.(y+1), if the current version is x.y. This is great, but in many cases the next version will /not/ break compatibility with your package. In that case, once you have tested that the dependency is fine, you can bump the upper bound.

As the list of dependencies for any respectable Cabal package can be quite long, it may be useful to have some sort of 'cabal whatsnew' command which checks the upper bounds of your build dependencies and notifies you when there are newer versions than your upper bounds availble. Furthermore, there should be a mechanism for telling Cabal that the upper bound is required, and that the package will break if you try to bump it."	enhancement	new	normal	cabal-install-0.16	cabal-install tool	1.6.0.3	normal				unknown