Hello Karel, On 2014-01-13 at 18:13:55 +0100, Karel Gardas wrote:
Hello Herbert,
the fix in a little bit extended version is already up-stream: https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/98a3feb23364897779dd665758949555a84d...
well, it's a first step that's in the master branch, but GHC HEAD currently tracks the stable Cabal branch (currently this is "1.18"[1]) as we want GHC to ship with a proper release of the Cabal lib.
What is the process to ask ghc developers to update from upstream?
You'll need to persuade the Cabal devs to make the fix above available in a stable branch; if the fix makes it into a Cabal release in time for the final GHC 7.8 release, it will most likely be part of 7.8. However, I don't know if there's a concrete plan for a Cabal-1.18.1.3 release currently. [1]: https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commits/1.18