[Haskell-cafe] Deprecated packages

[Andrew Coppin]

Jason Dagit wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Jason Dagit <dagit at codersbase.com 
> <mailto:dagit at codersbase.com>> wrote:
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>     On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Andrew Coppin
>     <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com <mailto:andrewcoppin at btinternet.com>>
>     wrote:
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>         Jason Dagit wrote:
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>                Will Hackage one day provide a way to discover that one
>             package
>                has been superceeded by another?
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>                Currently you can see when a newer version of the exact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??
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>             This has come up before.  As you can see here:
>             http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/46764
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>             I think we just need someone (how about you!?) to start
>             working on it.
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>         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?
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>     A darcs patch should work.  If you look in the thread I linked to
>     you'll see this message by Thomas M. DuBuisson:
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> By copy and paste, my apologies:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/46773

Hackage ticket #261 appears to contain the required patch already.

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/261