'cabal install mypkg.tar.gz' should also work if contained directory has no version suffix
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When I create tarball with darcs like
```
gnuplot$ darcs dist
Created dist as .../gnuplot/gnuplot.tar.gz
gnuplot$ cabal install gnuplot.tar.gz
...
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
gnuplot-0.5.3 failed while unpacking the package. The exception was:
user error (File in tar archive is not in the expected directory. Expected:
"gnuplot-0.5.3" but got the following hierarchy: ["gnuplot"])
```
To me this seems to be overly strict, since if I unpack the tarball then I can install the package without renaming the directory.
```
/tmp$ tar xfz gnuplot.tar.gz
/tmp$ cabal install gnuplot/
```
This works.
Thus I propose to remove the check that the directory contains the version suffix. I think it is even ok to omit any check of the directory name and accept any tarball with a directory containing a Cabal package description file.
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