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* Warn the dependencies using backpack are broken when installed from hackage

* Reword

* Update nix-local-build.rst

Make the hyperlink to issue 6005 a little better.
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andrewthad authored and ezyang committed Oct 1, 2019
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``autogen-modules`` is able to replace uses of the hooks to add generated modules, along with
the custom publishing of Haddock documentation to Hackage.

.. warning::

Packages that use Backpack will stop working if uploaded to
Hackage, due to `issue #6005 <https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6005>`_.
While this is happening, we recommend not uploading these packages
to Hackage (and instead referencing the package directly
as a ``source-repository-package``).

Configuring builds with cabal.project
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