[Haskell-cafe] Cabal ignores bounds in test-suite sections?

[Tom Ellis]

Sorry, that was misleading.  What I meant was "when specifying
'cabal-version: >= 1.8' in the cabal file", but still the same happens if I
specify 'cabal-version >= 1.18'.

On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 12:50:59PM +0000, Michael Snoyman wrote:
> Do you mean "1.18" instead of "1.8"?
> 
> On Tue Dec 09 2014 at 2:48:29 PM Tom Ellis <
> tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2013 at jaguarpaw.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I have a cabal file with two test suites
> >
> >     https://github.com/tomjaguarpaw/haskell-opaleye/
> > blob/master/opaleye.cabal
> >
> > If I change the dependency in "test-suite tutorial", say, from
> > `profunctors`
> > to `profunctors >= 0.6` then the bound is completely ignored and cabal will
> > attempt to compile and run the test suite even without a suitable version
> > present.
> >
> > Is this expected behaviour?
> >
> > Tom
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