Package description field "Related" for related packages
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Description
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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