cabal sdist does not perform all checks.

[bos]

(Imported from Trac #660, reported by @kmcallister on 2010-04-11)

Some checks in Distribution.PackageDescription.Check are defined on GenericPackageDescription and are called via checkPackage. checkPackage is called by configure, which ignores dist-related checks, but not by sdist, which only calls checkConfiguredPackage.

So any dist-related checks on GenericPackageDescription, e.g. warning of base version not bounded above, will have no effect.

[bos]

(Imported comment by @kmcallister on 2010-04-11)

Should revisit #395 when this is fixed.

[bos]

(Imported comment by @dcoutts on 2010-04-11)

This will involve changing the public UserHooks API since the sDistHook uses PackageDescription rather than GenericPackageDescription.

[gbaz]

Since cabal check does run all checks, these checks aren't really "inert". However, it is still irritating that sdist only does a partial check. It would be nice to fix this.

[ffaf1]

Closed via #8427