[Hackage] #269: Not having an up-to-date package list causes indexing out of bounds error

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#269: Not having an up-to-date package list causes indexing out of bounds error
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  Reporter:  guest               |        Owner:         
      Type:  defect              |       Status:  new    
  Priority:  low                 |    Milestone:         
 Component:  cabal-install tool  |      Version:  1.2.3.0
  Severity:  normal              |     Keywords:         
Difficulty:  normal              |   Ghcversion:  6.8.2  
  Platform:                      |  
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 Not having an up-to-date package list causes

 {{{
 cabal: Data.ByteString.Lazy.index: index too large: 0
 }}}

 (.. which is a bad error message.)

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/269>
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