you could host your own mirror of hackage and ask folks to list your mirror before the primary :) 
cabal-install and hackage-server provide support for this!

and in some respects, that even more transparent/understandable for end users than branching name spaces

but name spaces are a topic for another thread


On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Roman Cheplyaka <roma@ro-che.info> wrote:
* Peter Simons <simons@cryp.to> [2014-05-11 21:39:30+0200]
>  > I will continue to maintain my fork, as I don't want this situation
>  > to repeat in the future.
>
> That doesn't make much sense to me, though. You've got what you wanted:
> the patch you needed has been applied!

Not quite. What I want is that this situation (package remaining uninstallable
for a non-trivial amount of time) never happens again. I don't want to go
through this process next time something breaks in 'temporary'.

Roman

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