diff --git a/mkcabal.cabal b/mkcabal.cabal
--- a/mkcabal.cabal
+++ b/mkcabal.cabal
@@ -1,17 +1,24 @@
 Name:                mkcabal
-Version:             0.4.2
+Version:             1.0.0
 License:             GPL
 License-file:        LICENSE
 Homepage:            http://code.haskell.org/~dons/code/mkcabal
 Author:              Don Stewart
 Maintainer:          dons@galois.com
-Copyright:           (c) Don Stewart, 2005-2008
+Copyright:           (c) Don Stewart, 2005-2008, 2010
 Category:            Distribution
-Description:         Generate cabal files for a Haskell project
 Synopsis:            Generate cabal files for a Haskell project
-extra-source-files:  Licenses.hs
-cabal-version:       >= 1.2
+Description:         This project was a tool to generate cabal files for
+    a project. It has since been merged into 'cabal init'.
+    . 
+    *Please use 'cabal init' instead
+    . 
+    More details on cabal init here:
+    <http://byorgey.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/cabal-init/>
+
 build-type:          Simple
+cabal-version:       >= 1.2
+extra-source-files:  Licenses.hs
 
 flag small_base
   description: Choose the new smaller, split-up base package.
@@ -20,7 +27,7 @@
     main-is:             mkcabal.hs
     build-depends:       mtl, pcre-light>=0.3, readline, extensible-exceptions
     if flag(small_base)
-        build-depends: base >= 3,
+        build-depends: base >= 3 && < 5,
                        pretty, old-locale, old-time, directory
     else
         build-depends: base < 3