[Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

[Andrew Coppin]

Today I uploaded a package to Hackage, and rediscovered something that 
you already know: I'm an idiot.

More specifically, I copied the Cabal description from another package 
and then updated all the fields. Except that I forgot to update one. And 
now I have a package which I've erroneously placed in completely the 
wrong category.

Is there any danger that at some point in the future, it might be 
possible to edit a package /after/ it has been released on Hackage? 
There are several reasons why you might wish to do this (beyond 
realising you did something wrong five minutes after hitting the upload 
button): The maintainer might change. The homepage might move. A better 
package might come along, making the existing one obsolete. Or you might 
want to stick a message on the package saying "hey, this version has a 
serious bug, please use the next version up instead!"

(I guess you wouldn't want to actually change the code content of a 
package. That leaves the potential for several /different/ variants of 
"the same" package floating around, depending on when people installed 
it. That would be Bad.)

Is there any danger that we might be able to do these kinds of things 
sometime soon?