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This isn't going to be fixable on hackage-server -- its about curl args that don't affect the actual communication with the server. looks like the newline dates to here: https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/9591d954be7cdc908caf4ea3face02a41d6337c9...

I'm a bit confused. In fact, the way we use nix at work involves "pre-installing" everything in the sense that everything goes into a package database which nix provides, instead...

All that said, I modestly prefer the current behavior, in part because I'm afraid of changing this sort of stuff given large and unpredictable effects it may have on many...

The comments here are swaying me towards supporting a change here. However, I really do feel it needs to be flag-controlled and I'm definitely worried that any deep change like...

i think we should in spirit agree to adding the fields. that said, i think in the resultant sandbox-like workflow they should be added to cabal.project.local since they don’t make...

is `export-depends` the same as `fake-depends` semantically?

Is it the case that candidates are not removed when they are published from the candidate index? Or is it the case that if somebody publishes to the candidate index,...

The one direction of that is also documented here: https://github.com/haskell-infra/hackage-trustees/blob/master/revisions-information.md Note that this is not the only "one way" revision -- it is also allowed to add from a very...

The "safe" argument is that if you have an automatic flag that is made manual, then one can locally always just force the flag to how the automatic could have...

Ah, the semantics are just `automatic` will automatically try the negated flag if the default doesn't work (i.e. backtrack), while manual won't, but otherwise they're the same? In that case,...