[Hackage] #594: Unhelpful error message for "module found in multiple packages"

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#594: Unhelpful error message for "module found in multiple packages"
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  Reporter:  guest               |        Owner:         
      Type:  enhancement         |       Status:  new    
  Priority:  normal              |    Milestone:         
 Component:  cabal-install tool  |      Version:  1.6.0.1
  Severity:  normal              |     Keywords:         
Difficulty:  unknown             |   Ghcversion:         
  Platform:                      |  
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 I was checking whether cabal-install would install my "extcore" package,
 and got:
 {{{
 $ sudo cabal install extcore --enable-library-profiling --reinstall
 Resolving dependencies...
 Configuring extcore-0.3...
 Preprocessing library extcore-0.3...
 Building extcore-0.3...

 Language/Core/Core.hs:6:7:
     Could not find module `Data.Generics':
       it was found in multiple packages: base-3.0.3.1 syb
 cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
 extcore-0.3 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
 exit: ExitFailure 1
 }}}

 This is an unhelpful error message because it gives the user no
 information about what they have to do to continue. Since I'm the package
 author, I was able to figure out that I needed to change the .cabal file
 to depend on base >= 4. In general, the error message should explain that
 this is a bug in the package description and to report it to the package
 maintainer.

 cabal-install 0.6.2, library version 1.6.0.3.

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