From 333eafb886b3179dfb8cefadec6326ec19f01f52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 11:14:55 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Added INSTALL instructions about older cabal versions.

IT may be necessary to update cabal, since older versions
don't take into account the (new) possibility of changed
metadata on Hackage.
---
 INSTALL | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index d5821339a..2715a8715 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ Quick install
 
     This procedure will install the released version of pandoc,
     which will be downloaded automatically from HackageDB.
+    (Note:  if this step fails, and you are using an older version
+    of the Haskell Platform, e.g. on Debian stable, you may need to
+    upgrade your version of cabal: `cabal install cabal-install`,
+    then try `cabal update && cabal install pandoc` again.)
+
     If you want to install a modified or development version
     of pandoc instead, switch to the source directory and do
     as above, but without the 'pandoc':