Hackage is flooded with old package versions reuploads

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Vincent Hanquez <tab at snarc.org> wrote:

> Lots of people would be *horrified* to download some
> {c,c++,python,ruby,...} library-a.b.c.tar.gz and found anything changed
> inside without changing the exact name for it.
>
>>
Funny thing, that, because it happens pretty often and packagers have to
have "silent update" (upstream silently repackaged without changing the
version) rules to deal with it.

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