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If we're lucky, this might even fix the above problem.

`~` is a shell-ism, and programs have to do extra work to support it. At which point the question becomes whether to also support other shell-isms (`~user`, `$envar`, etc.). Most...

Some languages support it (e.g. Perl), others do not (e.g. C/C++, Java). There is no native API that supports it, except in convenience-oriented languages that specifically support shell-isms. (Try something...

> We should verify experimentally by reproducing #9917 I have in fact reproduced this accidentally when incompletely switching between `HEAD` and various other cabal/ghc versions. I don't think I've seen...

I mentioned in #10161 that I believe this means we rushed 3.12.0.0 out too soon. I believe this because of all the stuff, including these two PRs, that we squeezed...

The Validate thing is a bug in the new `unix` package. It's been marked uninstallable until a new release is made, so CI should work now.

Pushing this in because other PRs are choking on 24.04 still.

We need an old-ghcs test job with custom setup, as we already have backward compatibility breakage that leaked through (#10379).

That was our conclusion in our dev meeting yesterday, yes. There's also the complication that this is the Cabal library, and many things will stick to the version that ships...