cabal update retrieves broken index: warp-1.3.3.x.cabal not readable

[Erik Hesselink]

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Ross Paterson <ross at soi.city.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 11:44:47PM +0100, Andreas Abel wrote:
>> I pulled the new 00-index.tar from hackage an hour ago with cabal
>> update, breaking cabal install.
>>
>> cabal: Couldn't read cabal file "warp/1.3.3/warp.cabal"
>> cabal: Couldn't read cabal file "warp/1.3.3.1/warp.cabal"
>>
>> Fix is
>>
>> $ tar -f 00-index.tar --delete warp/1.3.3
>> $ tar -f 00-index.tar --delete warp/1.3.3.1
>>
>> My system:
>>
>> $ cabal --version
>> cabal-install version 0.10.2
>> using version 1.10.1.0 of the Cabal library
>> $ ghc --version
>> The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.0.1
>>
>> The cabal files for warp/1.3.3... need a fix, or be removed from hackage.
>
> Yet another test suite containing a conditional, which breaks
> cabal-install-0.10.2.  Are these going to be rejected by the Cabal
> library, or should people stop using cabal-install-0.10.2?

I still have a patch to Cabal rejecting these packages. If we decide
to reject these, it's at https://github.com/hesselink/cabal . We've
since moved on to installing cabal-0.14 in all relevant places, since
last time it seemed nobody cared much about supporting cabal-0.10.

Erik