[Hackage] #406: Update lexing/parsing of haddock markup for hackageDB

[Hackage]

#406: Update lexing/parsing of haddock markup for hackageDB
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  Reporter:  conal              |        Owner:                 
      Type:  defect             |       Status:  new            
  Priority:  normal             |    Milestone:                 
 Component:  hackageDB website  |      Version:  1.2.3.0        
  Severity:  normal             |   Resolution:                 
  Keywords:                     |   Difficulty:  easy (<4 hours)
Ghcversion:  6.8.3              |     Platform:                 
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Changes (by duncan):

  * difficulty:  normal => easy (<4 hours)

Comment:

 The current hackage code uses the lexer and parser lifted from
 `haddock-0.8`. The particular bug Conal bumped into with
 [http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/reactive-0.9.0
 reactive-0.9.0] is fixed in `haddock-0.9` so updating to at least that
 version would be an improvement and should be straightforward (whereas
 extracting the current haddock lexer and parser code from ghc would be
 more tricky).

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