Hackage is flooded with old package versions reuploads
Duncan Coutts
duncan.coutts at googlemail.com
Tue Jan 20 11:47:35 UTC 2015
On Sun, 2015-01-18 at 20:56 +0300, kyra 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.
BTW, where do you see these changes? I thought we had fixed the "latest
uploads" page and rss to only show real uploads, and not edits to
metadata.
Not that we want to hide the edits, they need to be visible, but we
shouldn't be confusing them with new package uploads in the UI anywhere.
Duncan
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