Hackage is flooded with old package versions reuploads

[kyra]

On 20.01.2015 14:47, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> 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
>
> .
>
I've wrote a small program producing old-hackage-log-like-file from 
hackage index file ("Recent additions" page is too short).

Regads,
Kyra