[Haskell-cafe] GHC 6.10.1 and cabal[-install]

[Andrew Coppin]

Jason Dagit wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Andrew Coppin 
> <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com <mailto:andrewcoppin at btinternet.com>> wrote:
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>     Duncan Coutts wrote:
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>         The Cabal package provides the library. The cabal-install package
>         provides the 'cabal' command line tool.
>
>         The deprecated package you're thinking of is cabal-get or
>         cabal-setup.
>          
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>     Will Hackage one day provide a way to discover that one package
>     has been superceeded by another?
>
>     Currently you can see when a newer version of the exact same
>     package exists, but (for example) take a took at how many
>     gazillion database packages there are up there. Which ones are
>     active? Which ones are obsolete? How can I tell??
>
>
> This has come up before.  As you can see here:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/46764
>
> I think we just need someone (how about you!?) to start working on it.

What do I need to do? Just obtain the Hackage source code and submit a 
Darcs patch or something? Or is it harder than that?