Herbert Valerio Riedel

build failure w/ base-4.7 & base-4.6

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The cabal file advertises support for `base >= 4.6 && < 5`, however GHC disagrees:  I've already revised the 3 affected releases, so there's no immediate need for any...

As can seen in a prior build report https://matrix.hackage.haskell.org/package/unagi-chan@1565619672 the upper bound `base < 5` wasn't accurate as there were build failures with base-4.13 Consequently, I've fixed up the metadata...

Perform additional cheap integrity checks as part of `checkForUpdates`

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*tbd*

There appears to be a corner-case where hackage-security's sync logic doesn't recover automatically during a mirror-fallback-scenario when there's an outtage when the cache-folder is missing certain files (because e.g. a...

This regression was introduced via d91afd37deb0eb8494400be90072edf0dc493fc4 and this ticket is primarily a reminder to address this.

RFC: Protocol for bootstrapping when primary Hackage instance is unreachable

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I wasn't sure whether to file this here or in Cabal's issue tracker, but I think this method can be generalised, so I'm documenting it here for now: `cabal-install` can't...

Please include Emacs+Dante in table

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See https://github.com/jyp/dante

Document `extra-packages` in user's guide

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see https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/5444#issuecomment-406195007 for pointers

As can be seen in https://ghc.haskell.org/~hvr/buildreports/cryptohash.html a few old major versions fail to build with GHC 7.8+ subsequently infecting install-plans with upper bounds. The two ways to fix this, is...