Andreas Abel

What is surprising to me is that `$PACKAGE-$VERSION` can be a local target. What is the use of that? Intuitively, I would always associate a remote target with the form...

> > Is there an alternate approach by simply ripping out the version requirements in [cabal-bootstrap-gen.cabal](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/blob/master/bootstrap/cabal-bootstrap-gen.cabal?rgh-link-date=2022-08-11T17%3A40%3A19Z)? Any suggestion on which requirements to relax, or simply remove all of them? >...

> Is `X@2013` conceptually different then `X >= 2000 && = 5` a workflow management system and both would exist in the same context.

I would simply add `--depth 1` for all git cloning that `cabal` initiates (in all cases where this works). This should be the default. After all, you typically just want...

Before we settle on `depth: ` we should have a field study what different VCS have, with the hope of finding an interface that not just `git` supports (an alt...

~~Mercurial seems to have shallow clone via the `--root ` option: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/ShallowClone~~ Sorry, this was just a proposal; it seems Mercurial doesn't support it.

@Mikolaj: In your command, is `--enable-doc` something different than `--enable-documentation` ? (Confused.) I am not usually passing `--enable-doc` with `--haddock-for-hackage`, is this a mistake? Anyhow, I think having to pass...

This new feature is giving me a lot of trouble in connection with - #8313 This is because `--enable-documentation` triggers the assertion reported in #8313. Typically, it looks like: ```...

@dpwiz : Thanks for the bug report. Please provide full details that make the bug easily reproducible. (Think of a script that can be run to trigger the bug, without...

There is 'cabal upload -d' for that purpose. Does this work for you?