Take format specification history back to Cabal-1.0 #10847
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The motivation is that the documentation of the history of the format specification is almost complete (it currently stops at Cabal 1.8). This will complete it.
Some background to early Cabal version numbering is available here.
The format specification appears to have been stable between Cabal 1.2.1 and Cabal 1.6.
This PR does not modify behaviour or interface
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