On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Mikhail Glushenkov <the.dead.shall.rise@gmail.com> wrote:

I've now fixed this issue in Cabal HEAD and also pushed the fix to
1.20 and 1.18 branches. 1.20 and 1.18 point releases should be out
soon.

Thanks, Mikhail! Does this imply that package authors can simply advise bug reporters to upgrade cabal-install?