On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 12:56 PM, kyra <kyrab@mail.ru> wrote:
It looks old (and even ancient) versions of many packages gets uploaded to hackage over and over again in ever increasing amounts. The username of uploader for vast majority of these uploads is HerbertValerioRiedel.

While this is harmless I wonder what idea stands behind this?

Correcting bad package dependency limits to avoid things trying to use packages that can never work but whose loose versioning claims that it will? 

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