Make commas optional in "build-depends"
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Reasons:
1. There is no real need for the comma. People almost never use more than 1 line for specification of 1 dependency. So its role as a separator is pretty much redundant.
1. For the same reason the change will be backwards compatible for the majority of existing packages.
1. Consistency. Sections like `default-extensions` and `exposed-modules` already behave this way.
1. Clarity. Less syntactic noise.
To make it abundantly clear I suggest to make the following syntax valid:
```cabal
build-depends:
base >=4.12 && <5
bytestring >=0.10 && <0.12
```
In addition to the following already supported variations:
```cabal
build-depends:
base >=4.12 && <5,
bytestring >=0.10 && <0.12
```
```cabal
build-depends:
base >=4.12 && <5,
bytestring >=0.10 && <0.12,
```
```cabal
build-depends: base >=4.12 && <5, bytestring >=0.10 && <0.12
```
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