On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Andrew Coppin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> Duncan Coutts wrote:
>
>> The Cabal package provides the library. The cabal-install package
>> provides the 'cabal' command line tool.
>>
>> The deprecated package you're thinking of is cabal-get or cabal-setup.
>>
>>
>
> Will Hackage one day provide a way to discover that one package has been
> superceeded by another?
>
> Currently you can see when a newer version of the exact same package
> exists, but (for example) take a took at how many gazillion database
> packages there are up there. Which ones are active? Which ones are obsolete?
> How can I tell??


This has come up before.  As you can see here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/46764

I think we just need someone (how about you!?) to start working on it.

Thanks,
Jason
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