some way to specify common build-depends for library, executables and test-suites

[bos]

(Imported from Trac #948, reported by Oblosys on 2012-04-27)

Not sure whether this is a feature request or a bug report. I sometimes have a number of dependencies that are the same for library, executable, and test-suite. The global property 'build-depends' looks like an ideal place to put these, but any dependencies I list there seem to be ignored by cabal.

[bos]

(Imported comment by @kosmikus on 2012-04-27)

And making the executable and test-suite depend on the library does not work for you?

[Oblosys]

That works indeed! I wasn't aware this was possible. But is the global "build-depends" property always ignored? If not, maybe a warning should be given when it is?

[grayjay]

#3404 and #2832 are related.

[quasicomputational]

Common stanzas are a thing now, hurrah!