Re: build-depends in old-style package descriptions

On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 05:37:32PM +0200, Thomas Schilling wrote:

Note that it does not rewrite the _external_ package description. Cabal now internally uses the section-based syntax, so we have to rewrite old flat package descriptions to the section-based format _internally_. I.e., the actual text-file is never overridden, so no end-user will ever see this.

I realize that -- I'm concerned about clients of the Cabal library (e.g. the HackageDB scripts), whose view of the package description goes through this function.