Hackage is flooded with old package versions reuploads

[Edward Kmett]

Herbert patches old versions to fix up build plans and put in upper bounds that are shown to cause problems.

He's doing an awesome job and has greatly simplified my life.

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> On Jan 18, 2015, at 12:56 PM, kyra <kyrab at mail.ru> wrote:
> 
> Hi, guys,
> 
> 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?
> 
> Cheers,
> Kyra
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