Hackage is flooded with old package versions reuploads

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 7:06 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr at gnu.org> wrote:

> The reason I wouldn't be happy is that the effects of a "broken" package
> (especially the more popular it becomes) can't be contained easily. The
>

I wonder if Hackage can be extended to support an out-of-band "broken" flag
that can be applied to such packages, and cabal-install then refuse to use
those packages (possibly with an option to override).

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