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9 changes: 4 additions & 5 deletions doc/cabal-package-description-file.rst
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.. rubric:: Footnotes

.. [#old-style-build-tool-depends]
Some packages (ab)use :pkg-field:`build-depends` on old-style builds, but this has a few major drawbacks:

Some packages (ab)use :pkg-field:`build-depends` on old-style builds, but this has a few major drawbacks:

- using Nix-style builds it's considered an error if you depend on a exe-only package via build-depends: the solver will refuse it.
- it may or may not place the executable on ``PATH``.
- it does not ensure the correct version of the package is installed, so you might end up overwriting versions with each other.
- using Nix-style builds it's considered an error if you depend on a exe-only package via build-depends: the solver will refuse it.
- it may or may not place the executable on ``PATH``.
- it does not ensure the correct version of the package is installed, so you might end up overwriting versions with each other.
2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion doc/requirements.in
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# CVE-2024-35195
requests >= 2.32.0
# https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/11246
docutils <0.18
docutils <0.18
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