haskell / haskell/cabal

Package description field "Related" for related packages

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Cabal: file format old-milestone: ⊥ type: enhancement
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I think it is good style for a package to mention alternative implementations or otherwise related packages. Currently I write this information in the Description field, but a specialised field could be parsed by the Hackage server and be displayed with hyperlinks to the related packages.
The simplest implementation would be just a list of package names like

```
Related: containers, array
```

However, an additional text explaining the relation to the current package would be nice, too. Maybe the syntax of the Source-Repository field can be copied.

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