Hackage is flooded with old package versions reuploads

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 12:56 PM, kyra <kyrab at mail.ru> wrote:

> It looks old (and even ancient) versions of many packages gets uploaded to
> hackage over and over again in ever increasing amounts. The username of
> uploader for vast majority of these uploads is HerbertValerioRiedel.
>
> While this is harmless I wonder what idea stands behind this?
>

Correcting bad package dependency limits to avoid things trying to use
packages that can never work but whose loose versioning claims that it
will?

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