test-suite options don't work in common stanzas

[oberblastmeister]

Describe the bug
test-suite options used in common stanzas fail with an unknown field error. In the test-suite stanza the required fields are missing, even if they are provided by import.

To Reproduce
clone https://github.com/oberblastmeister/cabal-testing.

$ cabal v2-build

cabal output

Errors encountered when parsing cabal file ./cabal-testing.cabal:

cabal-testing.cabal:14:1: error:
Test suite "tests" is missing required field "main-is" or the field is not present in all conditional branches.

   12 |   main-is: Test.hs
   13 |
   14 | test-suite tests
      | ^

cabal-testing.cabal:11:3: warning:
Unknown field: "type"

   10 | common common-test
   11 |   type: exitcode-stdio-1.0
      |   ^

cabal-testing.cabal:12:3: warning:
Unknown field: "main-is"

   11 |   type: exitcode-stdio-1.0
   12 |   main-is: Test.hs
      |   ^

Expected behavior
Cabal should not error when using test-suite options in common stanzas. Cabal should recognize that the required options are provided by through import.

System information

• NixOS 22.05
• Cabal 3.8.1.0
• GHC 9.2.4

[Mikolaj]

What should the behaviour be when the options are imported in a non-test? Is there any explanation in the manual or code comments or PR or issue why only options common to all stanzas had been made permissible under common?

[ulysses4ever]

Dup of #6117

[fgaz]

fyi type is optional from cabal-version: 3.8, so if you set that you can just leave it out
https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/3.8/file-format-changelog.html#cabal-version-3-8

[oberblastmeister]

Closing as this is a duplicate