id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,difficulty,ghcversion,platform
753,cabal configure choosing base 3 is confusing,guest,,"Hi,

cabal-install version 0.8.2
using version 1.8.0.2 of the Cabal library 

This bug was originally reported by a Debian user.

the `cabal' executable, when run on the attached sample library, chooses base 3.0.3.2:

$ cabal -v configure
[...]
Configuring foobar-0.0...
Dependency base ==3.0.3.2: using base-3.0.3.2
[...]

whereas, the library (via Setup.hs) correctly gets base 4.2.0.0, probably due to ghc's hiding of the earlier version

$ runhaskell Setup.hs -v configure
Configuring foobar-0.0...
Dependency base -any: using base-4.2.0.0
[...]

cabal-install should probably perform the same hiding that ghc does.

Cheers,
Iain",defect,closed,normal,cabal-install-0.14,cabal-install tool,1.8.0.6,normal,wontfix,,,unknown,,