So I just filed a bug against Lens because of the errant rendering of README.md on the hackage front page for Lens. I thought it was some kind of simple error in the markup to be fixed quickly.

Turns out, the behavior is intentional: hackage-server explicitly avoids rendering raw HTML.

I propose to reconsider that decision, taking into account the fact that stackage is already rendering raw HTML (e.g., see http://www.stackage.org/package/lens). It works there, and now lens's page just looks worse on hackage. It also works on github. Basically hackage is simply behind.

Is there some compelling benefit? Security issues? Seems like a package submitter can only mess up their own page with invalid html, not anybody else's, so why not?