Only in cabal-1.8: .darcs-boring
diff -ur ocabal-1.8/Distribution/Simple/SrcDist.hs cabal-1.8/Distribution/Simple/SrcDist.hs
--- ocabal-1.8/Distribution/Simple/SrcDist.hs	2010-12-01 11:16:00.629309262 -0500
+++ cabal-1.8/Distribution/Simple/SrcDist.hs	2010-12-01 11:18:37.449933651 -0500
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
          ( Version(versionBranch) )
 import Distribution.Simple.Utils
          ( createDirectoryIfMissingVerbose, withUTF8FileContents, writeUTF8File
-         , copyFiles, copyFileVerbose
+         , installOrdinaryFile, installOrdinaryFiles
          , findFile, findFileWithExtension, matchFileGlob
          , withTempDirectory, defaultPackageDesc
          , die, warn, notice, setupMessage )
@@ -341,6 +341,12 @@
   createDirectoryIfMissingVerbose verbosity True (takeDirectory targetFile)
   copyFileVerbose verbosity file targetFile
 
+copyFileVerbose :: Verbosity -> FilePath -> FilePath -> IO ()
+copyFileVerbose = installOrdinaryFile
+
+copyFiles :: Verbosity -> FilePath -> [(FilePath, FilePath)] -> IO ()
+copyFiles = installOrdinaryFiles
+
 printPackageProblems :: Verbosity -> PackageDescription -> IO ()
 printPackageProblems verbosity pkg_descr = do
   ioChecks      <- checkPackageFiles pkg_descr "."