Dear Michael, Arch Haskell,
I saw this in the Haskell Weekly News recently:
http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2012/11/stable-vetted-hackage
I would like to propose that Arch Linux and the Hackage-packaging community project therein also be involved :)
Some information about the Arch Haskell project is here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Haskell_package_guidelines
I believe yesod and its dependencies, for example, are available in our [haskell-web] repository, and we (mainly Fabian and Magnus) are doing a great job of keeping it all working and up-to-date.
How might this interface with stackage?
Do you (on either side) see potential for collaboration?
Cheers,
Ramana