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-"Stable Hackage," tools for creating a vetted set of packages from Hackage.
+"Stable Hackage": creating a vetted set of packages from Hackage.
 
-__NOTE__ This repository is for package authors to get their code into
+__NOTE__ This repository is for package authors to get their packages into
 Stackage. If you simply want to use Stackage as an end user, please follow the
 instructions on [http://www.stackage.org/](http://www.stackage.org).