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opened on Jan 24, 2024

What is wrong with the docs?
I'm familiar with source-repository-package in projects. I'm reading about the source-repository stanza of a package. The section title "Source Repositories" is plural.

cabal/doc/cabal-package-description-file.rst

Lines 2668 to 2676 in ae3c40a

Source Repositories
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
.. pkg-section:: source-repository
:since: 1.6
It is often useful to be able to specify a source revision control
repository for a package. Cabal lets you specify this information in
a relatively structured form which enables other tools to interpret and

I saw that and immediately wondered what use would there be in one package for multiple source-repository stanzas?

Can we be clearer that all source-repository elements are for the one package and not for dependencies?

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