Hackage is flooded with old package versions reuploads

[Eric Mertens]

Wow, I thought this was a joke at first. HVRs work is terribly useful for
enabling old and new versions of GHC to work with hackage, and I've very
much appreciated the build reports he generates.

I'm sure he'd be happy to leave packages alone for anyone who prefers their
packages remain broken.

Thanks hvr for fixing the dozens and dozens of versions of just the lens
package in order to sort the base-4.8 rollout in particular that would have
taken an age to do manually.

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015, 5:00 PM Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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