haskell / haskell/cabal

No way to escape metacharacters in globs

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Description

The [section of Cabal's manual describing file globbing](http://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/developing-packages.html#pkg-field-data-files) does not cover how to escape metacharacters. It ought to say how to include a file with a literal `*` in its name.

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