diff --git a/attempt.cabal b/attempt.cabal
--- a/attempt.cabal
+++ b/attempt.cabal
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 name:            attempt
-version:         0.4.0
+version:         0.4.0.1
 license:         BSD3
 license-file:    LICENSE
 author:          Michael Snoyman, Nicolas Pouillard
 maintainer:      Michael Snoyman <michael@snoyman.com>
-synopsis:        Concrete data type for handling extensible exceptions as failures.
-description:     Defines a data type, Attempt, which has a Success and Failure constructor. Failure contains an extensible exception.
+synopsis:        Concrete data type for handling extensible exceptions as failures. (deprecated)
+description:     Please use the exceptions package instead
 category:        Data, Failure
 stability:       stable
 cabal-version:   >= 1.2