Error while updating world-file when v1-installing cabal-install

[andreasabel]

cabal-3.5.0.0 (master) crashes with garbled error message after v1-installing cabal-install:

$ cabal-3.5.0.0 v1-install cabal-install
Resolving dependencies...
Downloading  Cabal-3.2.1.0
...
Installing executable cabal in /Users/abel/.cabal/bin
Completed    cabal-install-3.2.0.0
Error while Error while updating world-file. : dieVerbatim: user error (cabal-3.5.0.0: Could not parse world file.
)

System information

• Operating system: macOS Mojave
• cabal 3.5.0.0
• ghc 8.8.4

Additional context
I invoked above command to downgrade from cabal-master to cabal-released (3.2.x).

[fgaz]

v1- is unsupported in currently maintained cabal-install versions

I should mention that we don't test any of v1- commands anymore.
The code is there, and if it works it is good, but if it doesn't,
we wont actively pursue fixing it (rather concentrating on whatever
issues are holding you from migration to v1-build).

Doesn't v2-install work for you?

[fgaz]

I'll close this, but please open another issue if v2-install isn't working too.