Merge pull request #8176 from Mikolaj/vilius

Update repo URL in doc example and Drop outdated Hackage vs CPAN package counts

Author: mergify[bot]

doc/cabal-package.rst

@@ -2764,12 +2764,12 @@ repository specifies a tag.
 ::
 
     source-repository head
-      type:     darcs
-      location: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/
+      type:     git
+      location: https://github.com/haskell/cabal
 
     source-repository this
-      type:     darcs
-      location: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal-branches/cabal-1.6/
+      type:     git
+      location: https://github.com/haskell/cabal
       tag:      1.6.1
 
 The exact fields are as follows:

doc/intro.rst

@@ -156,8 +156,8 @@ Ruby Gems or Perl distributions. Each system has a notion of
 distributable packages, and has tools to manage the process of
 distributing and installing packages.
 
-Hackage is an online archive of Cabal packages. It is roughly comparable
-to CPAN but with rather fewer packages (around 5,000 vs 28,000).
+Hackage is an online archive of Cabal packages, roughly comparable to
+CPAN.
 
 Cabal is often compared with autoconf and automake and there is some
 overlap in functionality. The most obvious similarity is that the