[Hackage] #897: cabal sdist broken on OS X

[Hackage]

#897: cabal sdist broken on OS X
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  Reporter:  tibbe          |        Owner:         
      Type:  defect         |       Status:  new    
  Priority:  high           |    Milestone:         
 Component:  Cabal library  |      Version:  1.8.0.6
  Severity:  major          |     Keywords:         
Difficulty:  unknown        |   Ghcversion:         
  Platform:  Mac OS         |  
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 The latest released version of cabal-install generates an sdist correctly:

 {{{
 $ cabal sdist -v3
 Warning: Cannot run preprocessors. Run 'configure' command first.
 creating dist/src
 Building source dist for hashable-1.1.2.2...
 creating dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2
 creating dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/Data
 creating dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/cbits
 Installing ./Data/Hashable.hs to
 dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/./Data/Hashable.hs
 Installing cbits/hashByteString.c to
 dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/cbits/hashByteString.c
 creating dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/tests
 Installing tests/Properties.hs to
 dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/tests/Properties.hs
 creating dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2
 Installing LICENSE to dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/LICENSE
 creating dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2
 Installing CHANGES to dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/CHANGES
 creating dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2
 Installing README.md to dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/README.md
 creating dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/tests
 Installing tests/Properties.hs to
 dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/tests/Properties.hs
 creating dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/benchmarks
 Installing benchmarks/Benchmarks.hs to
 dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/benchmarks/Benchmarks.hs
 creating dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/benchmarks
 Installing benchmarks/Makefile to
 dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/benchmarks/Makefile
 creating dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2
 Installing Setup.hs to dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/Setup.hs
 Installing ./hashable.cabal to
 dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/./hashable.cabal
 Source tarball created: dist/hashable-1.1.2.2.tar.gz
 }}}

 but HEAD generates an incorrectly named tempdir:

 {{{
 $ cabal sdist -v3
 creating dist/src
 Building source dist for hashable-1.1.2.2...
 creating dist/src/sdist.-67246
 creating dist/src/sdist.-67246/Data
 creating dist/src/sdist.-67246/cbits
 Installing ./Data/Hashable.hs to dist/src/sdist.-67246/./Data/Hashable.hs
 Installing cbits/hashByteString.c to
 dist/src/sdist.-67246/cbits/hashByteString.c
 creating dist/src/sdist.-67246/tests
 Installing tests/Properties.hs to
 dist/src/sdist.-67246/tests/Properties.hs
 creating dist/src/sdist.-67246
 Installing LICENSE to dist/src/sdist.-67246/LICENSE
 creating dist/src/sdist.-67246
 Installing CHANGES to dist/src/sdist.-67246/CHANGES
 creating dist/src/sdist.-67246
 Installing README.md to dist/src/sdist.-67246/README.md
 creating dist/src/sdist.-67246/tests
 Installing tests/Properties.hs to
 dist/src/sdist.-67246/tests/Properties.hs
 creating dist/src/sdist.-67246/benchmarks
 Installing benchmarks/Benchmarks.hs to
 dist/src/sdist.-67246/benchmarks/Benchmarks.hs
 creating dist/src/sdist.-67246/benchmarks
 Installing benchmarks/Makefile to
 dist/src/sdist.-67246/benchmarks/Makefile
 Preprocessing library hashable-1.1.2.2...
 creating dist/src/sdist.-67246
 Installing Setup.hs to dist/src/sdist.-67246/Setup.hs
 Installing ./hashable.cabal to dist/src/sdist.-67246/./hashable.cabal
 cabal: dist/src/sdist.-67246/hashable-1.1.2.2: does not exist
 }}}

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