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+## yesod-persistent
+
+Some helpers for using Persistent from Yesod.
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 name:            yesod-persistent
-version:         1.4.0.1
+version:         1.4.0.2
 license:         MIT
 license-file:    LICENSE
 author:          Michael Snoyman <michael@snoyman.com>
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 cabal-version:   >= 1.8
 build-type:      Simple
 homepage:        http://www.yesodweb.com/
-description:     Some helpers for using Persistent from Yesod.
+description:     API docs and the README are available at <http://www.stackage.org/package/yesod-persistent>
+extra-source-files: README.md ChangeLog.md
 
 library
     build-depends:   base                      >= 4        && < 5