On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvriedel@gmail.com> wrote:
This sounds as if you'd want to file an issue and/or pull-request ASAP
for Cabal 1.20 before it gets released;

Just fixed this on the 1.20 branch:
https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/8af39a5f827dcf5b5ca68badc2955e4cccbb039d

-- Johan