[Haskell-cafe] Hackage inconsistent? (pandoc.cabal in 1.13.1)

[Peter Simons]

Hi Mikhail,

 >> [It's currently impossible] to tell that a package has been updated
 >> ("edited") just by looking at its version number.
 >
 > There is a 'x-hackage-revision' field in the .cabal file which gets
 > updated each time the package description is edited. May be useful for
 > generating distribution packages, e.g. you could have foo-1.0,
 > foo-1.0-rev1, foo-1.0-rev2, etc.

so why doesn't Hackage provide these useful version numbers for its users?

Best regards,
Peter