On 01/09/2013 01:24 PM, Joachim Breitner wrote:
So it seems the impact of a non-compatible upload to uri would be low.
The question is more likely: Do maintainers have a strong ownership of names they claim on hackage, or do we liberally take over names when it is for the greater good? In Debian, such a name-take-over would be highly controversial, but I’m not saying that this is a good thing.
Personally i would be in favor of taking over a package name provided the following: * provided it's a platform thing. * it has wide support in the community * the package name is generic enough * the amount of breakage is minimal * the authors / maintainers have been contacted (if way to contact are still valid) Maybe the authors / maintainers of uri could be sympathetic to a renaming too. -- Vincent