diff --git a/parsedate.cabal b/parsedate.cabal
--- a/parsedate.cabal
+++ b/parsedate.cabal
@@ -1,14 +1,26 @@
 Name: parsedate
-Version: 2006.11.10
+Version: 3000.0.0
+Cabal-version: >= 1.2
+Build-type: Simple
 Copyright: Bjorn Bringert
 Maintainer: bjorn@bringert.net
 Author: Bjorn Bringert
 Homepage: http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~bringert/darcs/parsedate/doc/
 License: BSD3
-build-depends: haskell98, base, parsec
-Synopsis: Haskell library for parsing dates and times
+Synopsis: Data and time parsing for CalendarTime
 Description:
   This library provides a function for parsing dates and times
-  given a date format string.
-Exposed-Modules: System.Time.Parse
-Ghc-options: -O2
+  given a date format string. 
+  This package creates CalendarTime values and is meant
+  for use with the old-time package. New code should 
+  use the time package, which now includes parsing, instead.
+
+Flag split-base
+
+Library
+  Build-depends: parsec
+  if flag(split-base)
+    Build-depends: base >= 3.0, old-time, old-locale
+  else
+    Build-depends: base < 3.0
+  Exposed-modules: System.Time.Parse