I for one am immensely grateful for Herberts awesome work, and appreciate it immensely and support it emphatically. (and I do a bit of similar work in miniature as well as a hackage trustee). I dont think people realize how many breakages/old issues have been resolved via the hard work of the various hackage trustees. hackage trustee's doing their jobs well results in a huge reduction in build problems by end users. 

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 7:06 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@gnu.org> wrote:
The reason I wouldn't be happy is that the effects of a "broken" package
(especially the more popular it becomes) can't be contained easily. The

I wonder if Hackage can be extended to support an out-of-band "broken" flag that can be applied to such packages, and cabal-install then refuse to use those packages (possibly with an option to override).

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