QuickCheck: preferred and deprecated versions
Preferred and deprecated versions can be used to influence Cabal's decisions about which versions of QuickCheck 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
QuickCheck has no preferred version ranges.
Explicitly deprecated versions for QuickCheck include: 2.11, 2.11.1, 2.11.2, 2.12.6, 2.13, 2.15
The version range given to this package, therefore, is <2.11 || >2.11 && <2.11.1 || >2.11.1 && <2.11.2 || >2.11.2 && <2.12.6 || >2.12.6 && <2.13 || >2.13 && <2.15 || >2.15Versions affected
Green versions are normal versions. Yellow are those out of any preferred version ranges. Red are deprecated.
1.0, 1.1.0.0, 1.2.0.0, 1.2.0.1, 2.1, 2.1.0.1, 2.1.0.2, 2.1.0.3, 2.1.1, 2.1.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.2, 2.3, 2.3.0.1, 2.3.0.2, 2.4, 2.4.0.1, 2.4.1, 2.4.1.1, 2.4.2, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.5.1.1, 2.6, 2.7, 2.7.1, 2.7.2, 2.7.3, 2.7.4, 2.7.5, 2.7.6, 2.8, 2.8.1, 2.8.2, 2.9, 2.9.1, 2.9.2, 2.10, 2.10.0.1, 2.10.1, 2.11, 2.11.1, 2.11.2, 2.11.3, 2.12, 2.12.1, 2.12.2, 2.12.3, 2.12.4, 2.12.5, 2.12.6, 2.12.6.1, 2.13, 2.13.1, 2.13.2, 2.14, 2.14.1, 2.14.2, 2.14.3, 2.15, 2.15.0.1