>   Encourage maintainers to put packages into Stackage:
>   :    github-backup
>   :    gloss
>   :    lambdabot
>   :    oeis

In fact, it would be great to have every upstream in Stackage.  If my
calculations are correct, we currently maintain 116 packages packages,
that are not in stackage.

I attach list of them (if MAINTAINER is unknown, it means that
packaging is not dep-5, and I failed to automatically extract this
information)

I propose following:
 * fix dep5 packaging and build full maintainers list
 * send some templated email to them with polite ask to join stackage
   *on behalf* of DHG, something like:

        Hello, dear maintainer of <package> haskell package.

        We are debian haskell group, who take care of debian packages
        of your haskell packages.

        Debian packaging is based on Stackage LTS, and if your package
        is not co-installable with current LTS snapshot, we have to
        patch things, which is probably work duplication. If it is not
        possible, we have to delay transition.

        It would greatly simplify our work, if your package would be part of
        Stackage and you would receive notifications about such
        co-installability issues from first hands. Can you please do it?

        Thank you.

What do you think? Would it be polite?

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_       arrows  MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       asn1-data       MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
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_       bindings-nettle  Clint Adams <[email protected]>
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_       blaze-builder-conduit   MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
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_       bytestring-handle       MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       bytestring-show MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       categories      MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       cond    MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       config-value     Eric Mertens <[email protected]>
_       Crypto  MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       crypto-pubkey-openssh    Fedor Gogolev <[email protected]>
_       darcs    Eric Kow <[email protected]>
_       darcs-monitor   MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       dataenc MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       diagrams-gtk     [email protected]
_       djinn    Lennart Augustsson <[email protected]>
_       dpkg    MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       ed25519  Austin Seipp <[email protected]>
_       EdisonAPI       MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       EdisonCore      MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       failure MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       filestore        John MacFarlane
_       frown   MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       ftphs   MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       github   John Wiegley <[email protected]>
_       github-backup   MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       gitit    John MacFarlane <[email protected]>
_       gloss    Ben Lippmeier <[email protected]>
_       gloss-rendering MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       gtk-traymanager  Tristan Ravitch <[email protected]>
_       haskelldb       MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       haskelldb-hdbc  MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       haskelldb-hdbc-odbc     MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       haskelldb-hdbc-postgresql       MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       haskelldb-hdbc-sqlite3  MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       HaskellForMaths MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       haskell-qrencode         James Sanders <[email protected]>
_       hasktags         Marc Weber <[email protected]>
_       HDBC-odbc       MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       hedgewars-server        MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       hoauth  MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       hothasktags     MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       HSH     MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       iCalendar       MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       idna     George Pollard <[email protected]>
_       intern  MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       IOSpec  MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       ircbot   Jeremy Shaw <[email protected]>
_       irc-core         Eric Mertens <[email protected]>
_       lambdabot       MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       lambdabot-core   James Cook <[email protected]>
_       lambdabot-haskell-plugins        James Cook <[email protected]>
_       lambdabot-irc-plugins    James Cook <[email protected]>
_       lambdabot-misc-plugins   James Cook <[email protected]>
_       lambdabot-novelty-plugins        James Cook <[email protected]>
_       lambdabot-reference-plugins      James Cook <[email protected]>
_       lambdabot-social-plugins         James Cook <[email protected]>
_       lambdabot-trusted        Bertram Felgenhauer <[email protected]>
_       language-python  Bernard James Pope (Bernie Pope) <[email protected]>
_       lazysmallcheck   Matthew Naylor <[email protected]>
_       LDAP    MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       mighttpd2       MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       mime     Sigbjorn Finne <[email protected]>
_       mountpoints      Joey Hess <[email protected]>
_       mtlparse        MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       mueval   Gwern <[email protected]>
_       ncurses  John Millikin <[email protected]>
_       netwire MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       network-conduit MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       numtype MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       oeis    MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       pipes-zlib       Renzo Carbonara <[email protected]>
_       publicsuffixlist         Myles C. Maxfield <[email protected]>
_       punycode         Myles C. Maxfield <[email protected]>
_       QuickCheck-safe MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       reactive-banana MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       recaptcha       MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       regex-compat-tdfa        shelarcy <[email protected]>
_       regexpr MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       rss2irc MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       SDL     MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       SDL-gfx MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       SDL-image       MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       SDL-mixer       MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       SDL-ttf MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       shakespeare-text        MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       ShellCheck      MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       shelltestrunner  Simon Michael <[email protected]>
_       show    MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       simple   Amit Levy <[email protected]>
_       simple-templates         Amit Aryeh Levy <[email protected]>
_       sockaddr         Kazu Yamamoto <[email protected]>
_       static-hash      Kazu Yamamoto <[email protected]>
_       Stream  MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       stringprep       George Pollard <[email protected]>
_       swish   MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       taffybar         Tristan Ravitch <[email protected]>
_       threadscope     MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       unlambda        MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       uri      [email protected]
_       uuagc   MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       uuagc-cabal      Arie Middelkoop <[email protected]>
_       uulib   MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       wai-app-file-cgi         Kazu Yamamoto <[email protected]>
_       X11-xft MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       x509-util        Vincent Hanquez <[email protected]>
_       xcb-types        Antoine Latter <[email protected]>
_       xcffib  MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
_       xmonad-contrib  MAINTAINER UNKNOWN
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