Andreas Abel

https://github.com/haskell/stylish-haskell/blob/05cc9e18f39ee7d465746d8493832e4012d6674b/README.markdown?plain=1#L17 A counterexample to these instructions is: - #405 The recipe there is: `cabal install -c 'stylish-haskell +ghc-lib' stylish-haskell`.

`doctest`s need `--write-ghc-environment-files=always`

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See: - https://github.com/isovector/type-errors/issues/9 Can we default to `write-ghc-environment-files: always` or would that break other packages? In the latter case, could we allow users to activate `write-ghc-environment-files: always` in the test...

Feature: Download link for revised packages

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Hackage provides download URLs for uploaded packages, but these do not include the revisions. It would be good to also have download URLs for specific revisions of a package, which...

Build failure (hackage-cli) with weird linker error (due to builder using v1-install)

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See https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hackage-cli-0.1.0.0/reports/1 > dieVerbatim: user error (Error: cabal: '/home/builder/.ghcup/ghc/9.2.4/bin/ghc-pkg-9.2.4' exited with an error: > z-hackage-cli-z-cabal-revisions-0.1.0.0: Warning: .:25:1: Unknown field: "library-dirs-static" > z-hackage-cli-z-cabal-revisions-0.1.0.0: installed package info from too old version of...

Hackage accepts `.cabal` files with 2 `source-repository head` entries

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E.g. this one: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pipes-zlib-0.4.4.2/pipes-zlib.cabal ``` source-repository head type: git location: https://github.com/k0001/pipes-zlib.git ...lots of stuff... source-repository head type: git location: https://github.com/githubuser/twio ``` When you do `cabal get -s pipes-zlib` you see...

[`prettyprinter 1.7.1`](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/prettyprinter-1.7.1) has the red "Test failed" flag up: But there is no error reported for the tests, just the absence of a test log: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/prettyprinter-1.7.1/reports/1 says this: @gbaz: Has...

The page https://hackage.haskell.org/packages/top gives a ranking of packages by download, but does not specify over which time / dates these downloads happened.

This issue is singled out from: - #9784 Adding `executable-dynamic: True` to the cabal configuration on Windows will fail executables to build. This include situations where you just want to...

`cabal check`: Warn about "bad" bounds

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A few insights into bounds that `cabal check` could teach the users via some new warnings: 1. A lower bound should be inclusive, i.e. of the form `>= version`, and...

`cabal install Agda` fails in `Setup.hs` with `executable-dynamic: True` in config file (Linux, Windows)

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`cabal install Agda` fails with `executable-dynamic: True` in config file: - https://github.com/agda/agda/issues/7163 - Reproducer on Linux: https://github.com/agda/agda/pull/7172 What is puzzling that `cabal install Agda --enable-executable-dynamic` (instead of setting in the...