cabal-install-parsers is out-of-date on Hackage

[kozross]

In master, this allows GHC 9, but on Hackage, it's not due to a bound on base. This is particularly odd in light of the Hackage release supporting Cabal 3.4. This is also causing innumerable transitive and direct blocks, including, but not limited to:

• cabal-plan
• cabal-extras
• GHC 9 support in text-ascii

[phadej]

You can use Cabal-3.4 library with GHC-8.10, there is nothing odd in that.

I don't understand why text-ascii is blocked on cabal-bundler? I don't see how that repository is using it?

[kozross]

I use it with cabal-docspec, which can't build with GHC 9, due to cabal-bundler not being able to build with GHC 9. This is breaking my CI for GHC 9.

[phadej]

Don't build cabal-docspec, download binary: https://github.com/phadej/cabal-extras/releases/tag/cabal-docspec-0.0.0.20210111

[kozross]

Does the binary run on all platforms? I'm CIing on Mac, Windows and Ubuntu.

[phadej]

Unfortunately no. I should setup CI to build it for all platforms, but hadn't got to it yet.