haskell / haskell/cabal

cabal ignores the 'cabal-version' field when solving for setup dependencies

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cabal-install: cmd/check Cabal: stanza/custom-setup type: enhancement
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Description

This can cause the build to fail when the `setup-depends` range for Cabal is less restrictive than the `cabal-version` for a given package. See https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/3723#issuecomment-243337073.

The current behavior is technically correct, because it is possible for a setup script to depend on one version of Cabal and implement the command interface from a different version. I think it would be better to prevent build failures in the more common case, though.

One solution is to update the `setup-depends` constraint on Cabal to reflect `cabal-version` before dependency solving.

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