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This page is often surfaces above the "Developing Quickstart" section in search results but a beginner ending up here may not know how to set up their package before using the commands here. This adds a link to the section in the docs that walks through how to set up a package so they don't need to go looking for it themselves.

and clean up various aspects related to the `cabal-version` field

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This restricts the solver to a closed set of packages.

Previously, even with freeze files, there was no good way to instruct
cabal-install to avoid pulling in extra, unconstrained
packages. `--reject-unconstrained-dependencies=all` forces the solver
to stay within the set of packages that are either local packages,
explicit goals, or which are explicitly constrained in configuration
files or via the `--constraint` flag

Closes #2568.

This also enables and makes use of the Sphinx todo extension which
provides an idiomatic way to annotate TODO items in .rst

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Using `package *` for all packages is in line with `package foo` for
and does not introduce a new keyword to remember.

In the user guide, changelog and add a few code comments.

Add --enable-split-sections flag and pipe it through to the GHC backend. Note
that some of the implementation here could be made a bit more precise:
-split-sections and -split-objs are mutually exlusive yet the types don't
currently reflect this.

Fixes #4819.

- Fix Makefile to work on arch where we need to use sphinx-build2
- README: mention python 2 and use Makefile
- html output now properly links to github source
- new-freeze documentation fixed for the --project-file case

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This is just a quick incremental improvement to better describe the
current situation of unreleased cabal 2.1

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This builds on top of a0d80350 (#4575)
and extends the syntax to support the token `all` or `*` to serve as
wild-card for the relaxation subject, i.e. the following non-exhaustive
list of forms is made possible (NB: the package name `all` is reserved
on Hackage):

    allow-newer: somepkg:*
    allow-newer: somepkg:all
    allow-newer: somepkg:^*
    allow-newer: somepkg:^all
    allow-newer: all:^all
    allow-newer: *:^all
    allow-newer: *:^*
    allow-newer: *:*
    allow-newer: all:all

Refer to the user's guide for details

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