[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#576303: cabal-install: Does not support ~ in paths in .cabal/config

[Josh Triplett]

Package: cabal-install
Version: 0.8.0-1
Severity: normal

Paths in ~/.cabal/config don't seem to support ~ or any other means of
specifying $HOME.  This makes it difficult to specify paths like prefix,
build-summary, and remote-repo-cache in a non-system-specific way.

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cabal-install depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.10.2-6         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libffi5                 3.0.9-1          Foreign Function Interface library
ii  libgmp3c2               2:4.3.2+dfsg-1   Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cabal-install recommends:
ii  ghc6                          6.12.1-12  GHC - the Glasgow Haskell Compilat

cabal-install suggests no packages.

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