Backport #10833: Complete the documentation of main-is field
#10886
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The motivation is the discussion at this Stack issue:
main-isfield (source file) does not alter GHC's-main-isoption (module and function name) commercialhaskell/stack#6695where a user wanted to use
Foo.hscontainingFoo.mainand expected Cabal'smain-isfield to interpret that.Explains the use of GHC's
-main-isoption in Cabal files, when the usual convention ofMain.mainis not being followed.This PR does not modify behaviour or interface
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