packdeps Service Down

The packdeps.haskellers.com web service, which provides RSS/Atom feeds that notify developers of new versions of dependencies of packages in Hackage, is down. The domain is currently “parked,” and the previous sponsor is seeking a new sponsor to host the service.

All feeds now return the HTML notice (status 200), and my feed reader did not notify me that the service is no longer serving valid feeds. I would like my feed reader to alert me about such issues, perhaps providing an option to mute such alerts for non-critical feeds that do not behave well.

I learned about this in a Haskell Discourse thread. So far, there does not seem to be any interest in sponsoring the service, nor even interest in the RSS/Atom feeds. Hackage can notify developers of new versions of packages that they maintain, via email. One benefit of the packdeps service, however, is that a contributor to a package can be notified of dependency changes even if they are not a maintainer.

Note that it is of course still possible to self-host or use the CLI locally.

Update

It looks like the service may be migrated to Stackage infrastructure, if somebody can find the time to do the migration. (issue)