[Haskell-cafe] Renaming a package on Hackage

[Gwern Branwen]

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On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Jeff Heard  wrote:
> How does one go about renaming a package on Hackage?  I finally
> figured out a name for Thingie, and I'd like to change the package
> name to reflect that, so that future versions look to the new package
> and not the old one.

I don't believe there is one, yet (destructive updates like that are
not very haskelly). I think the usual approach is to request roconnor
delete the old packages, or to just bump the Thingie version number
and modify the synopsis/description to tell people to use the new
name.

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gwern
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