From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 81078 invoked by alias); 21 Jun 2016 14:27:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 81065 invoked by uid 89); 21 Jun 2016 14:27:03 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-96.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,GOOD_FROM_CORINNA_CYGWIN,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_PBL,RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL,RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=desperately, our X-HELO: calimero.vinschen.de Received: from ipbcc0227e.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (188.192.34.126) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 21 Jun 2016 14:27:02 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id A7586A805C4; Tue, 21 Jun 2016 16:27:00 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 14:27:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: per-version hints proposal Message-ID: <20160621142700.GB12441@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <8b4723b2-1bd5-3604-1deb-cfd0a1c7b9d9@dronecode.org.uk> <20160621120321.GL3667@calimero.vinschen.de> <57694A7B.6050500@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="EuxKj2iCbKjpUGkD" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <57694A7B.6050500@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) X-SW-Source: 2016-06/txt/msg00076.txt.bz2 --EuxKj2iCbKjpUGkD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 868 On Jun 21 08:08, Eric Blake wrote: > On 06/21/2016 06:03 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >=20 > >> * 'curr', 'prev' and 'test' don't make sense on a per-version basis. = So I > >> suggest a separate file for these version overrides (versions.hint?) > >=20 > > Ideally we wouldn't need something like "prev" at all since the version > > number itself is sufficient to specify what's curr and what's old. >=20 > Except when upstream version numbers go backwards. We'd have to adopt > something like Fedora's "epoch" numbering if we want our version numbers > to always be increasing (by bumping the epoch any time upstream versions > go backwards). I think Yaakov is desperately asking for this for a long time :) Corinna --=20 Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat --EuxKj2iCbKjpUGkD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-length: 819 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXaU60AAoJEPU2Bp2uRE+gi4kP/jd8CIUcIOP9ilI5nLXMzrla 6UXKF3dd3qOxwUMbWKX4Tw2zWFcvdRqVz3cXrW9efuHHft8183bRJEVL2DttsRQd 4ULeQjV9Oh095V/Bma8PNDFJPVBgoxasM4i6nvVRgIVkGezhMSaQlKlpvGwM/y09 tRZk4oAnOTx//Ij+HlXP5uIj1WGfo6CMYX6j6T/I4anzXs+iY8Ba1BR49RuUUqlx WgFAMgWaYoer2fcUrut320vBiH/AeKrE2R6Pr43sVdQeweNjH0lx/7+rlrtis/UU +C+dUxMpoBYM4D1iKx+niVst31ds4pb/n/Oq0P1/qAJ7QA96mXRoiSDoZ0rBlivf LTYnflP2HYqT+1jZsi2yM9xQs9bN++T6iEcI9eBfzI6ap7nPglcByD12KQbTyS5u 5c2/wUuhCEWsSty/ExxxZDCtQ45x49wpCJpcKFq87xE+SUxHtHaWVMPcAIzGXE+w Sf6uVPvfHiI1RH/UyzqOtLp0wu14ADv/Uu2fxgIN+BvWCBadBNfOgzX3/cqmie1k PaghCAVSlfu2VHlKmal//qFc2tPx7FUD325CJsj1S3I6LoFjXtd0B4DHjFlpvgJs Qhmj+hh4il/Nr/ThzMdj8MIbo/1sLjFRlElexoVIueNgpUkoxv0noXB0CZqCIjIW 0FImm2I2/2bMi7P7HFxt =vv15 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EuxKj2iCbKjpUGkD--