On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin@btinternet.com> wrote:

Jason Dagit wrote:

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin@btinternet.com <mailto:andrewcoppin@btinternet.com>> wrote:

   Duncan Coutts wrote:

       The Cabal package provides the library. The cabal-install package
       provides the 'cabal' command line tool.

       The deprecated package you're thinking of is cabal-get or
       cabal-setup.
       

   Will Hackage one day provide a way to discover that one package
   has been superceeded by another?

   Currently you can see when a newer version of the exact same
   package exists, but (for example) take a took at how many
   gazillion database packages there are up there. Which ones are
   active? Which ones are obsolete? How can I tell??


This has come up before.  As you can see here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/46764

I think we just need someone (how about you!?) to start working on it.

What do I need to do? Just obtain the Hackage source code and submit a Darcs patch or something? Or is it harder than that?

A darcs patch should work.  If you look in the thread I linked to you'll see this message by Thomas M. DuBuisson: