Trustees can widen bounds or perform a non-maintainer upload if the regular maintainer is unavailable, as outlined here: Trustees can widen bounds as outlined here: https://gist.github.com/bergmark/76cafefb300546e9b90e#2-metadata-only-changes-relaxing-constraints

I've opened an issue to track the progress: https://github.com/haskell-infra/hackage-trustees/issues/41

Cheers,
Adam


On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Dan Burton <danburton.email@gmail.com> wrote:
Hackage admins can modify the dependency version constraints. I believe that any other edits require a new release of the package.

-- Dan Burton

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Francesco Gazzetta <francygazz@gmail.com> wrote:
The package urlencoded wasn't updated since 2012 and needs a minor modification in the .cabal file.

The author was contacted half an year ago, but he didn't respond, so -according to the instructions on hackage- I state my intention to take over.

Or, more simply, can an hackage admin just edit the cabal file?

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