Can't upload a package named "oath" to Hackage

[J. Reinders]

I found the candidate listed here: https://hackage.haskell.org/packages/candidates/

You have to click the version number “0”, not the name “oath”.

> On 3 Dec 2021, at 15:10, Andreas Abel <andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de> wrote:
> 
> Why isn't such a candidate listed under .../candidates ?
> 
> See the candidate here:
> 
>  https://hackage.haskell.org/package/oath-0/candidate/oath.cabal
> 
> Is such name reservation in the spirit of hackage?
> ```
> name:                oath
> version:             0
> license:             BSD3
> license-file:        LICENSE
> maintainer:          hvr at gnu.org
> build-type:          Simple
> cabal-version:       >=1.10
> synopsis: reserved package name
> ```
> 
> I'd hardly believe this, given the hackage trustee practice to only give out accounts if there is also a serious package to be uploaded.
> 
> On 2021-12-03 15:06, J. Reinders wrote:
>> There is a candidate:
>> https://hackage.haskell.org/package/oath-0/candidate
>>> On 3 Dec 2021, at 15:04, Adam Gundry <adam at well-typed.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 03/12/2021 13:57, Edward Kmett wrote:
>>>> Did someone else upload a candidate package and then not follow up with
>>>> a release?
>>> 
>>> It looks like it: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/oath/maintainers/
>>> lists hvr as maintainer. But there doesn't seem to be a candidate there
>>> any more (perhaps they can be deleted?).
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 7:22 AM Fumiaki Kinoshita <fumiexcel at gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:fumiexcel at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>    I tried to upload a package called "oath". However I got the
>>>>    following error message:
>>>> 
>>>>    cabal upload --publish dist-newstyle/sdist/oath-0.0.tar.gz
>>>>    hackage.haskell.org <http://hackage.haskell.org> username:
>>>>    FumiakiKinoshita
>>>>    hackage.haskell.org <http://hackage.haskell.org> password:
>>>>    Uploading dist-newstyle/sdist/oath-0.0.tar.gz...
>>>>    Error uploading dist-newstyle/sdist/oath-0.0.tar.gz: http code 403
>>>>    Error: Upload failed
>>>> 
>>>>    You are not authorised to upload new versions of this package. The
>>>>    package
>>>>    'oath' exists already and you are not a member of the maintainer
>>>>    group for
>>>>    this package.
>>>> 
>>>>    If you believe you should be a member of the maintainer group for this
>>>>    package, then ask an existing maintainer to add you to the group. If
>>>>    this is a
>>>>    package name clash, please pick another name or talk to the
>>>>    maintainers of the
>>>>    existing package.
>>>> 
>>>>    However, https://hackage.haskell.org/package/oath
>>>>    <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/oath> does not exist. I'm not
>>>>    sure what is going on
>>> 
>>> 
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