24 Jun
2008
24 Jun
'08
6:01 p.m.
Hi
Yes. I agree. It's not even necessarily the author themselves that would necessarily mark a package as obsolete or without maintainers or whatever.
On a slightly related note, I would be more likely to fix my broken packages on hackageDB, if hackageDB automatically sent me an email when a package breaks.
Me too! Or when new warnings get added to the hackage system which would cause a warning on a new upload, or when haddock or GHC fails to build the package. York University has a particularly effective way of ensuring everyone uses valid HTML, by sending an email once a week if there is any invalid HTML. Perhaps this would be going too far, but alerting maintainers to the problems would be handy. Thanks Neil