Hackage is flooded with old package versions reuploads

[Carter Schonwald]

I for one am immensely grateful for Herberts awesome work, and appreciate
it immensely and support it emphatically. (and I do a bit of similar work
in miniature as well as a hackage trustee). I dont think people realize how
many breakages/old issues have been resolved via the hard work of the
various hackage trustees. hackage trustee's doing their jobs well results
in a huge reduction in build problems by end users.

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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