#714: cabal: Couldn't read cabal file ".\\HaTeX\\1.0.0\\HaTeX.cabal" ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.6.0.3 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.12.1 Platform: Windows | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Comment(by duncan): Ah, found the problem. When we read a .cabal file from disk we use readUTF8File which ignores the BOM. We do not do the same when reading the .cabal entry from the index tarball in cabal-install. Really we should make `parsePackageDescription` take a `ByteString` and have it do all the decoding (utf, bom, line ending conversion) there in a single place. Ross: the temporary solution is to change the hackage-scripts upload script to read the .cabal file from disk using a modified readUTF8File that does not ignore the BOM: {{{ readUTF8File_LeavingBOMIntact :: FilePath -> IO String readUTF8File_LeavingBOMIntact f = fmap fromUTF8 . hGetContents =<< openBinaryFile f ReadMode }}} We should also edit the two HaTex .cabal files in the current archive to strip off the BOM. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/714#comment:6 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects