This is very similar to a situation that was discussed earlier on Cafe. I think you should be given (at least temporal) maintainership to upload a new version of the package given that the package is currently un maintained

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On 11 Feb 2014, at 23:15, Jean-Philippe Bernardy wrote:

Hello,

I wish for the dependencies of package dvi-processing to be updated to current versions. The listed maintainer ("AaronBlack") appears to be unsearchable on the internet (no mention on the name can be found in connection to the Haskell language, except has maintainer on Hackage). Hackage does not seem to want to reveal an email address either.

Hence I propose to take over maintainership of the package. I beg the powers that be to let me know if this would be possible, and if so when it can happen.

Many anticipated thanks, JP Bernardy. _______________________________________________ Libraries mailing list Libraries@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries

-- Sincerely yours, -- Daniil