are curr: and test: no longer accepted in .hint files?

are curr: and test: no longer accepted in .hint files?

[Andrew Schulman]

I tried adding

curr: 1.7.3.2-1
test: 2.0.0-b9-1

to the .hint files in my latest upload of socat. Those fields used to be
supported to indicate current and test versions, but this time I got this
back from calm:

ERROR: package 'socat': unknown key curr at line 10
ERROR: package 'socat': test has non-empty value '2.0.0-b9-1'
ERROR: errors while parsing hints for package 'socat'
ERROR: package 'socat-debuginfo': unknown key curr at line 6
ERROR: package 'socat-debuginfo': test has non-empty value '2.0.0-b9-1'
ERROR: errors while parsing hints for package 'socat-debuginfo'
ERROR: error while reading uploaded arch x86 packages from maintainer
Andrew Schulman
ERROR: package 'socat': unknown key curr at line 10
ERROR: package 'socat': test has non-empty value '2.0.0-b9-1'
ERROR: errors while parsing hints for package 'socat'
ERROR: package 'socat-debuginfo': unknown key curr at line 6
ERROR: package 'socat-debuginfo': test has non-empty value '2.0.0-b9-1'
ERROR: errors while parsing hints for package 'socat-debuginfo'
ERROR: error while reading uploaded arch x86_64 packages from maintainer
Andrew Schulman

What's the supported way now to tell calm which versions are previous,
current, and test when you need to override the defaults?

Thanks,
Andrew

Re: are curr: and test: no longer accepted in .hint files?

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On 2017-03-24 11:18, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> I tried adding
>
> curr: 1.7.3.2-1
> test: 2.0.0-b9-1
              ^
Hyphens aren't allowed in versions, it messes up the sorting.  This 
needs to be VERSION=2.0.0; RELEASE=0.1.b9; then the next beta will be 
0.2.b10, etc., until 2.0.0 is final with RELEASE=1.

-- 
Yaakov

Re: are curr: and test: no longer accepted in .hint files?

[Andrew Schulman]

> On 2017-03-24 11:18, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > I tried adding
> >
> > curr: 1.7.3.2-1
> > test: 2.0.0-b9-1
>               ^
> Hyphens aren't allowed in versions, it messes up the sorting.  This 
> needs to be VERSION=2.0.0; RELEASE=0.1.b9; then the next beta will be 
> 0.2.b10, etc., until 2.0.0 is final with RELEASE=1.

OK, I'll do that. But why does calm say

ERROR: package 'socat': unknown key curr at line 10

?

Re: are curr: and test: no longer accepted in .hint files?

[Jon Turney]

On 24/03/2017 16:18, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> I tried adding
>
> curr: 1.7.3.2-1
> test: 2.0.0-b9-1
>
> to the .hint files in my latest upload of socat. Those fields used to be
> supported to indicate current and test versions, but this time I got this
> back from calm:
>
> ERROR: package 'socat': unknown key curr at line 10
> ERROR: package 'socat': test has non-empty value '2.0.0-b9-1'
> ERROR: errors while parsing hints for package 'socat'
> ERROR: package 'socat-debuginfo': unknown key curr at line 6
> ERROR: package 'socat-debuginfo': test has non-empty value '2.0.0-b9-1'
> ERROR: errors while parsing hints for package 'socat-debuginfo'
> ERROR: error while reading uploaded arch x86 packages from maintainer
> Andrew Schulman
> ERROR: package 'socat': unknown key curr at line 10
> ERROR: package 'socat': test has non-empty value '2.0.0-b9-1'
> ERROR: errors while parsing hints for package 'socat'
> ERROR: package 'socat-debuginfo': unknown key curr at line 6
> ERROR: package 'socat-debuginfo': test has non-empty value '2.0.0-b9-1'
> ERROR: errors while parsing hints for package 'socat-debuginfo'
> ERROR: error while reading uploaded arch x86_64 packages from maintainer
> Andrew Schulman
>
> What's the supported way now to tell calm which versions are previous,
> current, and test when you need to override the defaults?

I'm assuming you have a recent cygport, which is now generating 
<pvr>.hint rather than setup.hint files.

It's not helpful to mention specific versions in a <pvr>.hint files, so 
curr: is not permitted, and test: is not permitted to specify a version

If you need to override the default version ordering, then a separate 
per-package override.hint [1] can be used.

In this case, I think all you want to do is continue to mark 2.0.0-b9-1 
as a 'test' version.  As discussed in [2], the current thinking is that 
should be achieved with a 'test:' label in the associated pvr.hint, but 
unfortunately, this package pre-dates the pvr.hint changes, so you'll 
have to use override.hint

[1] https://cygwin.com/packaging-hint-files.html#override.hint
[2] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2016-12/msg00005.html

Re: are curr: and test: no longer accepted in .hint files?

[Andrew Schulman]

> > What's the supported way now to tell calm which versions are previous,
> > current, and test when you need to override the defaults?
> 
> I'm assuming you have a recent cygport, which is now generating 
> <pvr>.hint rather than setup.hint files.
> 
> It's not helpful to mention specific versions in a <pvr>.hint files, so 
> curr: is not permitted, and test: is not permitted to specify a version
> 
> If you need to override the default version ordering, then a separate 
> per-package override.hint [1] can be used.
> 
> In this case, I think all you want to do is continue to mark 2.0.0-b9-1 
> as a 'test' version.  As discussed in [2], the current thinking is that 
> should be achieved with a 'test:' label in the associated pvr.hint, but 
> unfortunately, this package pre-dates the pvr.hint changes, so you'll 
> have to use override.hint
> 
> [1] https://cygwin.com/packaging-hint-files.html#override.hint
> [2] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2016-12/msg00005.html

Thanks. I hadn't seen [1] yet. I'll rework the hint files.

Thanks to whoever overhauled the package maintainer's guide in the last
year or two. The last time I looked at it, it was badly out of date. What's
there now is good.

Andrew

Re: are curr: and test: no longer accepted in .hint files?

[Jon Turney]

On 24/03/2017 16:44, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> On 2017-03-24 11:18, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>>> I tried adding
>>>
>>> curr: 1.7.3.2-1
>>> test: 2.0.0-b9-1
>>               ^
>> Hyphens aren't allowed in versions, it messes up the sorting.  This

Certainly they may not sort the way you expect :)

Another reason for disallowing this is that it makes decomposing a 
package name into P-V-R ambiguous

Going forward, I think we want to add this to the rules for hyphenation 
in [1]

>> needs to be VERSION=2.0.0; RELEASE=0.1.b9; then the next beta will be
>> 0.2.b10, etc., until 2.0.0 is final with RELEASE=1.

Actually, since this is an existing package, it has a grandfathered-in 
exception to this rule, but it would be nice to bear this in mind for 
the future.

[1] https://cygwin.com/packaging-package-files.html#naming

Re: are curr: and test: no longer accepted in .hint files?

[Andrew Schulman]

> > > What's the supported way now to tell calm which versions are previous,
> > > current, and test when you need to override the defaults?
> > 
> > I'm assuming you have a recent cygport, which is now generating 
> > <pvr>.hint rather than setup.hint files.
> > 
> > It's not helpful to mention specific versions in a <pvr>.hint files, so 
> > curr: is not permitted, and test: is not permitted to specify a version
> > 
> > If you need to override the default version ordering, then a separate 
> > per-package override.hint [1] can be used.
> > 
> > In this case, I think all you want to do is continue to mark 2.0.0-b9-1 
> > as a 'test' version.  As discussed in [2], the current thinking is that 
> > should be achieved with a 'test:' label in the associated pvr.hint, but 
> > unfortunately, this package pre-dates the pvr.hint changes, so you'll 
> > have to use override.hint
> > 
> > [1] https://cygwin.com/packaging-hint-files.html#override.hint
> > [2] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2016-12/msg00005.html
> 
> Thanks. I hadn't seen [1] yet. I'll rework the hint files.
> 
> Thanks to whoever overhauled the package maintainer's guide in the last
> year or two. The last time I looked at it, it was badly out of date. What's
> there now is good.

Hm, looking in the git log, I see it was YOU. Now abusing my authority as
Gold Star page maintainer:

Gold star awarded! https://cygwin.com/goldstars/#JTy