Cabal: Bump time upper bound to allow 1.12

[bgamari]

In service of GHC #20547.

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[Mikolaj]

I can see

cabal-install/cabal-install.cabal:        time       >= 1.5.0.1  && < 1.11,

@bgamari: could you bump that as well so that we all test the same thing on branch master?

[Mikolaj]

Restarted CI seems to be fine.

I intend to backport this to 3.6 to give the GHC hackers the option of using either branch. I will also make a PR that bumps cabal-install similarly, but not backport it, so that we can dog-food on master ASAP without enddangering 3.6. Please discuss if that doesn't sound good.

[fgaz]

CI is not testing this change because time is included with ghc (what was the name for that? core/boot package?) and won't be upgraded...
@bgamari Did you test this?

[Mikolaj]

@fgaz: well spotted. So we'd need to change the bounds temporarily to only allow 1.12, to get this tested?

[fgaz]

or add time==1.12 to constraints in cabal.project.validate{.libonly}. I don't know if previous maintainers had a faster way to test such changes

[bgamari]

CI is not testing this change because time is included with ghc (what was the name for that? core/boot package?) and won't be upgraded... @bgamari Did you test this?

Yes, I tested it in a local GHC tree.

[bgamari]

cabal-install/cabal-install.cabal: time >= 1.5.0.1 && < 1.11,

Historically we have bumped cabal-install and Cabal separately as the former is harder for me to test.

[fgaz]

Yes, I tested it in a local GHC tree.

That's enough for me, and the changelog looks harmless

[Mikolaj]

@Mergifyio backport 3.6

[mergify]

backport 3.6

✅ Backports have been created

• #7869 Cabal: Bump time upper bound to allow 1.12 (backport #7863) has been created for branch 3.6