Check that the numbers of *versions* output is equal to the number of pkgconf's

fixes #8923

The pkgconf behavior was reverted upstream in 2.0

(this should cover the case too of checking that equal pkgList lines are output also)

(cherry picked from commit 3832beaf)

# Conflicts:
#	cabal-install-solver/src/Distribution/Solver/Types/PkgConfigDb.hs

Revert #3639 (Don't pass -package-db and -package flags to --abi-hash) (backport #9384)

* Revert #3639 (Don't pass -package-db and -package flags to --abi-hash)

With ghc>=9.6 `ghc --abi-hash` initialises the plugins so it will fail
if a cabal file specifies `ghc-options: -fplugin=Foo`.

Closes: #9375

* Also revert in GHC.hs

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(cherry picked from commit 01cfac0e)

# Conflicts:
#	Cabal/src/Distribution/Simple/GHC.hs
#	Cabal/src/Distribution/Simple/GHCJS.hs

Make `check` recognise `TypeAbstractions`

See #9496.

“Backport” of #9502, notice that we are not adding a new constructor,
just tweaking `check` behaviour.  This is improve UX without breaking
changes.

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(cherry picked from commit cb311fd9)

(cherry picked from commit 775a44e7)

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fixes and improvements (#9348)
Fixes #9304
Fixes #9312
Resolves #9347

* Bump base in cabal-dev-scripts.cabal

Bump base in cabal-dev-scripts.cabal. We are now using GHC 9.4.7 in CI, which ships with base 4.17.2.0. I am bumping all the way to <4.19 after testing everything compiles with GHC 9.6.3 (base-4.18.1.0).

(cherry picked from commit 033e8e04)

* Avoid OverloadedStrings when it causes troubles

(cherry picked from commit dc08acb9)

# Conflicts:
#	Cabal-syntax/src/Distribution/Fields/Parser.hs

* doctest: provide a separate project file without -Werror (fix #9307)

This became necessary after an upgrade to GHC 9.4, which, apparently,
has a subtle change in how -W/-w-related things get interpreted.

(cherry picked from commit ccce7c3b)

* fixup! resolve a conflict

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PD check: do not treat library names as package names (backport #9132)

Fixes #9122

(cherry picked from commit 4aa5f886)

Co-authored-by: Ben Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>

Fix `prefer-oldest` documentation (backport #8904)

Available since 3.10, not 3.8.

(cherry picked from commit 7b40528f)

Fixes #8958.

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fixes #9190

cabal-install: Fix non-reinstallable package set (backport #9092)

cabal-install: Fix non-reinstallable package set

In #9064 we discovered that `ghc-boot` was added to the
non-reinstallable package set due to #8051 despite there being no
reason why it can't be built from its source distribution. This
revealed the fact that there is quite some ambiguity around what
constitutes a non-reinstallable package.

In #9064 we worked out a hopefully-more-clear picture of
non-reinstallability. Here we update the commentary to describe this
concept and update the lists to reflect the new definition.

Closes #9064.

(cherry picked from commit 2e32a44f)

# Conflicts:
#	cabal-install/src/Distribution/Client/Dependency.hs

* Fix tests

(cherry picked from commit 249374d1)

# Conflicts:
#	cabal-install/tests/UnitTests/Distribution/Solver/Modular/Solver.hs

* Fix conflicts

Fix parsing of password-command option (#6268) (backport #9002)