I don't think that's right. The HP maintainers are not (and cannot be) the maintainers of each individual package. That just does not scale.
Oh absolutely, but I was imagining that (at least part of) the purpose of the Platform is to generate automatic notifications to package owners, when a change in either ghc or the packaging infrastructure or the package's dependencies, leads to their own package breaking. So the Platform effectively generates an auto-prompt when maintenance is required. Given that such a lot of package-breakage is not due to changes in the functionality of the library itself, but purely to changes in the packaging system surrounding it, this would in my eyes shift a certain amount of responsibility in the right direction. :-) (Not the responsibility to fix, but the responsibility to notify.) As a package author (rather than a user), I would see this as a primary benefit of having my packages added to the Platform. And as a package user (rather than author), there is the corresponding antibenefit of removing a package like HOpenGL from the Platform: a diminished likelihood of the maintainer being already aware of packaging flaws. Regards, Malcolm