diff --git a/src/Stack/Types/Config.hs b/src/Stack/Types/Config.hs
index be67b98e49..cc370bbbf5 100644
--- a/src/Stack/Types/Config.hs
+++ b/src/Stack/Types/Config.hs
@@ -4,8 +4,10 @@
 {-# LANGUAGE GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving #-}
 {-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
 {-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE TupleSections #-}
 {-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies #-}
 {-# LANGUAGE RecordWildCards #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE ScopedTypeVariables #-}
 
 -- | The Config type.
 
@@ -336,7 +338,7 @@ instance ToJSON PackageEntry where
         ]
 instance FromJSON (PackageEntry, [JSONWarning]) where
     parseJSON (String t) = do
-        loc <- parseJSON $ String t
+        (loc, _::[JSONWarning]) <- parseJSON $ String t
         return (PackageEntry
                 { peExtraDepMaybe = Nothing
                 , peValidWanted = Nothing
@@ -346,7 +348,7 @@ instance FromJSON (PackageEntry, [JSONWarning]) where
     parseJSON v = withObjectWarnings "PackageEntry" (\o -> PackageEntry
         <$> o ..:? "extra-dep"
         <*> o ..:? "valid-wanted"
-        <*> o ..: "location"
+        <*> jsonSubWarnings (o ..: "location")
         <*> o ..:? "subdirs" ..!= []) v
 
 data PackageLocation
@@ -361,17 +363,17 @@ instance ToJSON PackageLocation where
     toJSON (PLFilePath fp) = toJSON fp
     toJSON (PLHttpTarball t) = toJSON t
     toJSON (PLGit x y) = toJSON $ T.unwords ["git", x, y]
-instance FromJSON PackageLocation where
-    parseJSON v = git v <|> withText "PackageLocation" (\t -> http t <|> file t) v
+instance FromJSON (PackageLocation, [JSONWarning]) where
+    parseJSON v = git v <|> ((,[]) <$> withText "PackageLocation" (\t -> http t <|> file t) v)
       where
         file t = pure $ PLFilePath $ T.unpack t
         http t =
             case parseUrl $ T.unpack t of
                 Left _ -> mzero
                 Right _ -> return $ PLHttpTarball t
-        git = withObject "PackageGitLocation" $ \o -> PLGit
-            <$> o .: "git"
-            <*> o .: "commit"
+        git = withObjectWarnings "PackageGitLocation" $ \o -> PLGit
+            <$> o ..: "git"
+            <*> o ..: "commit"
 
 -- | A project is a collection of packages. We can have multiple stack.yaml
 -- files, but only one of them may contain project information.