Re: [Haskell-cafe] Policy for taking over a package on Hackage

On 5/25/11 1:37 PM, Antoine Latter wrote:

On May 25, 2011 11:08 AM, "KQ" wrote:

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At the risk of returning to a recurring theme that often comes up but never gets resolved satisfactorily, I'd like to make a cabal proposal:

Add to the .cabal file the following optional field:

Related-package: ACTION NAME VERSION Information

- The first word is the ACTION and is one of: "Replaces", "Redesigns", "Extends", or "Alternative".

- The second word is the NAME of the related package.

- The third word is the VERSION of the related package.

- Any additional text is information describing how the packages relate in descriptive terms and could be a multi-line paragraph like the existing Description: field. [...]

The only thing I'd add would be the additional actions "ReplacedBy", "ExtendedBy" and "RedesignedBy".

+1. Though this should probably be made into a formal ticket for Cabal (especially of the "please apply this patch" variety). I think lack of implementation has always been a bigger issue than disagreement about this feature. -- Live well, ~wren