This has not been needed since stack <1.4.0, and even the i386ancent
build uses stack 2.1.1.
Stack 2.7.5 seems to have forgotten about this old config and warns
about it, so this avoids that warning.
The libtinfo-dev was added to the docs at the same time, I assume it is
also not necessary.
(And v9 later on to v10.)
When v9/v10 were added, making v8 automatically upgrade was deferred
"for a few months" to prevent interoperability problems if users also
have an old version of git-annex. Of course that could still be the
case, but there has been a good amount of time and this can't be put off
forever.
Allow setting annex.autoupgraderepository to false to avoid this upgrade.
Previously, that only prevented upgrades from no longer supported git-annex
versions, but v8 is still supported, and users may want to keep on v8 to
interoperate with an old git-annex version.
Sponsored-by: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. on Patreon
I would like for a new repo version to enable appends, but to do so
safely would need a v11 followed by a 1 year delay followed by a v12
that does it. Since a similar v9 and v10 transition is currently
happening, and is less than 6 months along in most repos, it does not
feel wise to stack up another year-long transition behind that. What if
I need to hurry up a new repo version for some other change?
Added todo so I remember to make this change at some time when a v11
and probably v12 repo version do make sense.
Sponsored-by: Dartmouth College's DANDI project
