Backport #10646: Deduplicate path separator duplicates

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Fixes #10645, a small Windows gotcha missed with #10546.

I really had to get into the weeds with this one. The assertOutputContains function was modifying the output (a test actual value) before comparision with the unmodified actual value. This change was not visible. I've added an assertOn function (that assertOutputContains calls) that takes a NeedleHaystack configuration for how the search, expectation and display are made. I had wanted to add a pilcrow ¶ for line endings but the terminal output is restricted to ASCII so I've marked line beginnings with ^ and line endings with $. The needle (the expected output fragment) is shown annotated this way as can the haystack (the output). The haystack is not shown annotated with line delimiters but can be.

The concatOutput function, I've renamed to lineBreaksToSpaces. There's more detail on the cabal-testsuite changes in the changelog entry. One benefit of using an .md extension for changelog.d/pr-10646.md is that typos are caught by CI.

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	new file:   cabal-testsuite/PackageTests/ProjectImport/ParseErrorProvenance/dir-else/else.config
	new file:   cabal-testsuite/PackageTests/ProjectImport/ParseErrorProvenance/else.project
	new file:   cabal-testsuite/PackageTests/ProjectImport/ParseErrorProvenance/msg.expect.txt
	modified:   cabal-testsuite/README.md
	new file:   cabal-testsuite/src/Test/Cabal/NeedleHaystack.hs
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