It turned out that Jeremy Shaw already had upload rights, and he works for
me.  ;-)

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Sven Bartscher <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:54:49 -0700
> David Fox <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Ok, I've uploaded hsx2hs-0.13.3 to hackage, with updated repository path.
> > GHC-7.10 support is waiting for changes to haskell-src-meta.
>
> Thanks.
> Just out of curiosity: How did you gain upload rights on hsx2hs? When I
> tried to take over setlocale, without the author responding it was a
> lengthy process, with people yelling at me, that I should follow the
> guideline that I'm already following.
>
> Regards
> Sven
>
> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 3:39 AM, Sven Bartscher <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:50:43 -0700
> > > David Fox <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > We build with the changes in https://github.com/seereason/hsx2hs.git
> .
> > >
> > > That looks good, but it would be better, if there would be a release on
> > > hackage, since our infrastructure builds on building packages from
> > > hackage (though it's possible to build packages not from hackage).
> > >
> > > The repository listed on hackage doesn't seem very active. Do you know
> > > whether they're active? If not, have you thought about taking over the
> > > hackage package[1]?
> > >
> > > [1] https://wiki.haskell.org/Taking_over_a_package
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Sven
> > >
> > > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Sven Bartscher <
> > > > [email protected]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Greetings,
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm writing to you, because you are listed as maintainer of the
> haskell
> > > > > package hsx2hs.
> > > > >
> > > > > We (the Debian Haskell Group) are planning on transitioning to ghc
> 7.8
> > > > > after the release of jessie, which will be very soon.
> > > > >
> > > > > This transitions includes upgrading the version of
> haskell-src-exts in
> > > > > debian to 1.16.0.1. Unfortunately hsx2hs can't be build with this
> > > > > version of haskell-src-exts.
> > > > >
> > > > > Could you please release a new version of hsx2hs, which builds with
> > > > > haskell-src-exts-1.16.0.1.
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards
> > > > > Sven
> > > > >
> > >
>

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