cabal import parser doesn't support common stanzas

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  • Bone Baboon
  • Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
  • Philip Munksgaard
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Philip Munksgaard wrote on 27 May 2021 15:21
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As far as I can tell, the cabal parser for the `guix import` command (https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/import/cabal.scm)does not support common stanzas, as specified in the cabal specification (https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/3.4/cabal-package.html#common-stanzas).

This means that some packages, like "versions" (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/versions-5.0.0/src/versions.cabal)and all depending packages cannot be imported using `guix import hackage versions`:

```
$ guix import hackage versions
Syntax error: unexpected token : common (at line 36, column 0)
Syntax error: unexpected end of input
guix import: error: failed to download cabal file for package 'versions'
```
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Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote on 30 May 2021 18:46
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merge 48700 48701
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Philip Munksgaard wrote on 1 Jul 2021 17:10
Closed by 48943
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This issue has been fixed by #48943 and should be closed.
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Bone Baboon wrote on 13 Jul 2021 02:17
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Philip Munksgaard writes:

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> This issue has been fixed by #48943 and should be closed.

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