Re: ssh untest wget untest: unable to extract package and version from 'wget'

[Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>]

On 28/02/2022 05:43, Brian Inglis wrote:
> I had problems getting clean tests of upgraded wget locally for some 
> reason, but the build and test worked well on scallywag.
> So I set SCALLYWAG=deploy, pushed to master, and that worked properly, 
> with calm upload email, and upgraded wget in x86{,_64}/setup.ini the 
> only release under [test].
> But I cannot run 'untest wget': what have I forgotten, or am I missing, 
> to be able to run this?
> 
>      $ ssh cygwin-rDBXBDvO6BXQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org untest wget
>      untest: unable to extract package and version from 'wget'
>      $ ssh cygwin-rDBXBDvO6BXQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org 'untest --help'
>      usage: untest.py [-h] [PACKAGE [PACKAGE ...]]
> 
>      test hint remover
> 
>      positional arguments:
>        PACKAGE
> 
>      optional arguments:
>        -h, --help  show this help message and exit
> 

You must include the version-release you wish to untest as well.

e.g 'untest wget-1.21.3-1'

See https://cygwin.com/package-upload.html#untest

I'll fix the help text to reflect that.