Maintainership of dvi-processing

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.

Jean-Philippe Bernardy
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.
On this note, it seems that this package has never had an Author: tag. It seems to me that this should be a prerequisite for upload to package and as such `cabal check` should check for this. Cheers, - Ben

On 11/02/14 19:33, Ben Gamari wrote:
Jean-Philippe Bernardy
writes: 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.
On this note, it seems that this package has never had an Author: tag. It seems to me that this should be a prerequisite for upload to package and as such `cabal check` should check for this.
Cheers,
- Ben
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Mateusz Kowalczyk
Does cabal check work at the moment? If I try to use it, I get a 404 error in my terminal.
Works for me but I must say I may be a bit ahead of the curve in my Cabal version, $ cabal -V cabal-install version 1.19.2 using version 1.19.2 of the Cabal library

Upload date Sat Jul 7 01:10:36 UTC 2012 Don't listen to the devil, but you can do a pirate upload (at least that was possible on old hackage). In case the original author rises from his coffin you can always hand author/maintainership back. On 11.02.2014 20:15, 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.
-- Andreas Abel <>< Du bist der geliebte Mensch. Depeartment of Computer Science and Engineering Chalmers and Gothenburg University, Sweden andreas.abel@gu.se http://www2.tcs.ifi.lmu.de/~abel/

Nowadays to do that you'd need someone like Austin to go hack up the
maintainers list for the package and add you.
-Edward
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Andreas Abel
Upload date Sat Jul 7 01:10:36 UTC 2012
Don't listen to the devil, but you can do a pirate upload (at least that was possible on old hackage). In case the original author rises from his coffin you can always hand author/maintainership back.
On 11.02.2014 20:15, 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.
-- Andreas Abel <>< Du bist der geliebte Mensch.
Depeartment of Computer Science and Engineering Chalmers and Gothenburg University, Sweden
andreas.abel@gu.se http://www2.tcs.ifi.lmu.de/~abel/
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participants (5)
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Andreas Abel
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Ben Gamari
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Edward Kmett
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Jean-Philippe Bernardy
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Mateusz Kowalczyk