Declare dependency on hsc2hs #28 
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This gives
cabal new-buildthe necessary hint thathsc2hsis needed,and if missing needs to be automatically installed.
I've already revised this into the most recent release on Hackage,
as this was causing failures in some Travis jobs in combination with GHC 7.10.3, such as