[Hackage] #372: cabal sdist --snapshot does not work, while ./setup sdist snapshot does

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#372: cabal sdist --snapshot does not work, while ./setup sdist snapshot does
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  Reporter:  nomeata             |        Owner:       
      Type:  defect              |       Status:  new  
  Priority:  normal              |    Milestone:       
 Component:  cabal-install tool  |      Version:       
  Severity:  normal              |     Keywords:       
Difficulty:  normal              |   Ghcversion:  6.8.2
  Platform:  Linux               |  
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 Hi,

 cabal sdist has a bug, which does not appear when using Setup.lhs

 {{{
 $ cabal clean
 cleaning...
 $ cabal sdist --snapshot
 Warning: Cannot run preprocessors. Run 'configure' command first.
 Building source dist for free-theorems-0.2.1.20081016...
 cabal: dist/src/free-theorems-0.2.1: getDirectoryContents: does not exist
 (No such file or directory)

 $ runhaskell Setup.lhs sdist --snapshot
 Warning: Cannot run preprocessors. Run 'configure' command first.
 Building source dist for free-theorems-0.2.1.20081016...
 Source tarball created: dist/free-theorems-0.2.1.20081016.tar.gz
 $ cat Setup.lhs
 #!/usr/bin/env runhaskell

 > import Distribution.Simple
 > main = defaultMain
 }}}

 Using cabal-install 0.6.0, Cabal 1.6.0.1, ghc 6.8.2. I haven’t looked at
 the code, but I assume it’s a simple mistake.

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