Drop >= in suggestions to cabal-version (rebase #7104) (backport #8205)

Co-authored-by: Jeremy Scott <jeremy@jeremyscott.io>
Co-authored-by: Artem Pelenitsyn <a.pelenitsyn@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Francesco Gazzetta <fgaz@fgaz.me>
(cherry picked from commit e944b708)

cabal init -i should autodetect author name and maintainer email (backport #8267)

* cabal init -i should autodetect author name and maintainer email (fix #8255)

Name and email are fetched from git config in the non-interactive init
already, and we plug that utility into the interactive one in this commit.

Testing becomes clunkier: the list of inputs have to hold an additional
string that will be used as the return value of
`Interactive.readProcessWithExitCode`, and here is why. Recall that this
method is used to call `git config` to perform autodetection. In the
real scenario (the `IO` instance of `Interactive`), it actually calls
out to `git`. In the testing scenario (the `PurePrompt` instance of
`Interactive`), the method simply returns the next element of the list
of pre-defined inputs. So, the list of inputs to every relevant test has
to be adjusted.

* Add test checking that username/email can be autodetected

(cherry picked from commit 1b8bf8cc)

* Build release archives (and validate) with GHC 9.2.3

(cherry picked from commit f55ae058)

# Conflicts:
#	.gitlab-ci.yml

* Add a changelog file

(cherry picked from commit 73323db7)

* Fix bootstrap cabal-install version in gitlab-ci.yml

(cherry picked from commit 5ee0cab7)

# Conflicts:
#	.gitlab-ci.yml

* Update .gitlab-ci.yml, fixing a shallow conflict

Co-authored-by: Mikolaj Konarski <mikolaj.konarski@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Mikolaj Konarski <mikolaj@well-typed.com>

CI: GHC 9.2.1 -> 9.2.2 (backport #8253)

(cherry picked from commit 6ce51188)

Bootstrapping update (including GHC 9.0, 9.2) (backport #8239)

Keep it at only GHC 8.10.7 for macOS to save on CI time a bit.

(cherry picked from commit d7a7ea60)

- parametrize the bootstrap update Makefile target to make changing
  the list of GHC versions a bit easier
- add GHC 9.0.2 and 9.2.3 to the list of bootstrapping GHC versions
- regenerate the bootstrapping plans across all GHC versions

(cherry picked from commit 9e5b25ed)

Apple Silicon Foreign Library Support (#8227) (backport #8232)

(cherry picked from commit 70ea5dd6)

(cherry picked from commit 8257b334)

- Allowed building Foreign Libraries for all architecture on apple
  silicon
- Updated error message to name Mac OS instead of OSX as supported
  platform

(cherry picked from commit 99f928e2)

Some cosmetics on the 3.8 changelogs (backport #8214)

* Some cosmetics on the 3.8 changelogs

* More cosmetics on the 3.8 changelogs

Co-authored-by: Artem Pelenitsyn <a.pelenitsyn@gmail.com>

Co-authored-by: Artem Pelenitsyn <a.pelenitsyn@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: mergify[bot] <37929162+mergify[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
(cherry picked from commit a715d047)

bootstrap: generate missing Setup.hs in dependencies (backport #8194)

This allows bootstrapping against zlib 0.6.3.0, which ships
without Setup.hs.

I hope this should generally be a more robust approach than
asking maintainers of dependencies to keep Setup.hs.

(cherry picked from commit 5afa86b4)

Fix win release ext (backport #8191)

* Fix cabal exec extension for win

* Use tabs in the changed region

* Use exe ext when zipping

* Apply suggestions from code review

Co-authored-by: Robert <rob@vllmrt.net>

* Add curly braces to var

Co-authored-by: Robert <rob@vllmrt.net>
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(cherry picked from commit 49a49462)

Permit pre-releases in gitlab CI

Update the list of known GHC extensions to match GHC 9.2 (backport #8170)

GenericPackageDescription and LocalBuildInfo MD5 changed, as
KnownExtensions was modified.

(cherry picked from commit 72a37422)

(cherry picked from commit 075501cf)

The extensions — all parsing-related — are undocumented and not used in
the wild, but not yet deprecated:
- AlternativeLayoutRule
- AlternativeLayoutRuleTransitional
- RelaxedLayout

(cherry picked from commit 859ab68e)

(cherry picked from commit 9692976c)

Update repo URL in doc example and Drop outdated Hackage vs CPAN package counts (backport #8176)

(cherry picked from commit 20eb804e)

The package counts have grown to 15353 and 43351 respectively as of this
writing, hence the ratio has dropped from 5.6 to 2.8. Given the growth
of Hackage, the comparison does not seem as important anymore (does it
matter if you have 3 or 8 alternative libraries for the same purpose?).
Dropping package counts to avoid the need for continuous updates.

(cherry picked from commit 2b2bcd95)

Doc: list-bin does not ensure existence of build products (backport #8165)

It was a bit surprising to me that `cabal list-bin foo` prints a path
to an executable `foo` that may not actually exist.

(cherry picked from commit bfd5b019)

Update cabal to officially support GHC 9.2 (backport #8169)

because we already test 9.2 in CI. This covers

https://github.com/haskell/cabal/wiki/Making-a-release#for-release-for-new-ghc-version

except for #8168, which is pending.

(cherry picked from commit a8489a4b)

Fix typos in changelog entries (backport #8137)

(cherry picked from commit dfc33f39)

All kinds of last touches before the 3.8.0 pre-release