On 2010/10/20 Xyne
Just to be clear, this is not what I meant by "the translation table of Hackage names to Arch names", but this is part of the general metadata I mean in general. What I had in mind at the time was the HackageDB -> Arch name translation table.
Basically all metadata that may change should be available in simple parsable formats via (logically organized) direct links and maybe even as an archive containing all such metadata files.
In this case, we should switch our main repository to use a single plain text file (e.g. PKGLIST) used by the manycabal2arch program, or by a Makefile rule, to generate the habs repository. The PKGLIST file would be fed to some script that generates the table you're referring to and uploaded to a/the website as I think it was before we became the team. -- Rémy.