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Provide machine-readable binary distribution metadata

@maerwald has suggested that it would be useful to have various information about released binary distributions in a machine readable format (e.g. JSON or YAML). Such metadata would include the following for each bindist:

  • package versions in bindist package database (addressing #21996)
  • operating system the bindist was built on
  • gmp, ncurses, libc versions
  • perhaps gcc and binutils versions
  • build configuration (e.g. flavour)
  • ghc --info
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