Deps import fails when using :default-deps

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Reported by @favila in Slack:

When importing a project that looks somewhat like this (redacted):

{:aliases
  {:backend-defaults
   {:default-deps
    {io.clubhouse.module/logging
     {:local/root "../logging", :deps/manifest :deps},
     io.clubhouse.module/dev-shared
     {:local/root "../dev-shared", :deps/manifest :deps}}},
   :test
   {:extra-paths
    ["test"],
    :extra-deps
    {io.clubhouse.module/dev-shared nil}}},
  :paths
  ["src" "resources"]
  :deps
  {io.clubhouse.module/logging nil}}

Vars across :local/root deps.edn dependencies cannot be resolved, but their namespaces can (i.e. I can control-b the namespace and appear in the right one). Also I have deps with no names.

However refactoring the deps.edn to look like this works:

{:aliases
  {:backend-defaults
   {:default-deps {}},
   :test
   {:extra-paths
    ["test"],
    :extra-deps
    {io.clubhouse.module/dev-shared {:local/root "../dev-shared", :deps/manifest :deps}}}},
  :paths
  ["src" "resources"]
  :deps
  {io.clubhouse.module/logging 
     {:local/root "../logging", :deps/manifest :deps}}}

The problem seems to be that when deps are pulled in through :default-deps, deps doesn’t normalise the paths to absolute paths. Using the first (broken) example:

~/d/c/f/main> clj -Stree -A:backend-defaults:test
org.clojure/clojure 1.10.2
  . org.clojure/spec.alpha 0.2.194
  . org.clojure/core.specs.alpha 0.2.56
io.clubhouse.module/logging ../logging
io.clubhouse.module/dev-shared ../dev-shared

Using the second (working) example:

~/d/c/f/main> clj -Stree -A:backend-defaults:test
org.clojure/clojure 1.10.2
  . org.clojure/spec.alpha 0.2.194
  . org.clojure/core.specs.alpha 0.2.56
io.clubhouse.module/logging /Users/colin/dev/cursive-bugs/favila-deps-issue/logging
io.clubhouse.module/dev-shared /Users/colin/dev/cursive-bugs/favila-deps-issue/dev-shared

Here, the two libs come in via :extra-deps and top-level :deps, and they are both absolute.