[Haskell-cafe] Deprecated packages

Jason Dagit wrote:

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Jason Dagit mailto:dagit@codersbase.com> wrote:

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

Jason Dagit wrote:

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Currently you can see when a newer version of the exact same package exists, but (for example) take a took at how many gazillion database packages there are up there.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:

By copy and paste, my apologies: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/46773

Hackage ticket #261 appears to contain the required patch already. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/261