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Hi, I'd like to propose non-maintainer uploads be permitted on hackage.
It's reached the point for me where a huge part of my github activity is posting "could you please release the fix?" on haskell libraries which require a new release to work with the latest version of ghc or a core dependency. It's very tedious for all involved, and I believe that other package policies such as debian's allow non-maintainer uploads with a hyphenated version for this reason.
https://wiki.debian.org/NonMaintainerUpload
Since we already allow revision edits, I think this could also be a reasonable addition. It's a lot of added work when a package falls out of package sets due to a bug, generally requiring people to manually add the dependency through git. There are strict rules around debian's NMUs that we could abide as well.