On Nov 13 11:39, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 25/10/2017 22:18, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Oct 25 21:46, Jon Turney wrote:
> > > On 25/10/2017 21:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > > On Oct 25 20:42, Jon Turney wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > I propose that calm will stop accepting uploads containing setup.hint some
> > > > > time shortly after 2017-11-18.
> 
> Better plan: when uploaded, calm will rename a setup.hint file to pvr.hint.
> 
> (If the appropriate pvr cannot be determined (from the name of tar files in
> the same directory), or the setup.hint contains lines which aren't valid in
> a pvr.hint, the upload will fail)
> 
> I deployed an update to calm today which does this.
> 
> (It also has some preliminary support for depends:, obsoletes:,
> build-depends: hints, along with some cosmetic fixes)
> 
> > > > > This is approximately one year after the cygport release [1] which, stopped
> > > > > generating these files, so if you're using cygport >= 0.23.0, no action is
> > > > > needed.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Warnings that you need to upgrade cygport have been generated for more than
> > > > > 6 months [2].
> > > > > 
> > > > > After setup.hint uploads are disabled, any remaining setup.hint in the
> > > > > cygwin release on sourceware.org will be migrated to pvr.hint(s), as per
> > > > > [3].
> > > > > 
> > > > > [1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-11/msg00078.html
> > > > > [2] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2017-04/msg00024.html
> > > > > [3] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2016-09/msg00025.html
> > > > 
> > > > I'm still generating setup.hint files for the Cygwin package itself.
> > > > 
> > > > Please have a look into cygwin's cygport file.  Do we have an *easy*
> > > > replacement for creating test releases from cygport in the meantime?
> > > > 
> > > > Ideally I can simply call cygport with a --test parameter or some such
> > > > to create a test release.
> > > 
> > > See https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2017-10/msg00017.html which contains
> > > my patch to do this, and an offer to implement this in whatever way is
> > > acceptable to Yaakov.
> > 
> > Looks good to me.
> 
> I'll hold off on doing anything further until we've had some successes with
> the cygwin package to show this is working to your satisfaction.

Thanks!


Corinna


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