[Hackage] #410: cabal sdist does not call the sdist build hook in custom Setup.hs

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#410: cabal sdist does not call the sdist build hook in custom Setup.hs
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  Reporter:  duncan              |        Owner:         
      Type:  defect              |       Status:  new    
  Priority:  normal              |    Milestone:         
 Component:  cabal-install tool  |      Version:  1.2.3.0
  Severity:  normal              |     Keywords:         
Difficulty:  normal              |   Ghcversion:  6.8.3  
  Platform:                      |  
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 The `cabal sdist` command only runs the default actions, it does not call
 the sdist hook that gets called if you `runghc Setup sdist`.

 The problem is there is no external method for invoking the sdist hook.
 Calling `./setup sdist` performs the whole action, but we only want to
 prepare the tree and not tar it up, since `cabal sdist` uses internal tar
 code rather than calling an external tar program (which typically does not
 exist on windows).

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/410>
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