Re: [Attn. MAINTAINERS] Heads up: Perl 5.36.1 is imminent

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

On 06/05/2023 19:31, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 5/6/2023 9:34 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
>> (There's definitely a problematic dependency chain cygport -> automake 
>> -> automake1.* -> texinfo -> versioned perl which we need to be aware 
>> of in future when rebuilding texinfo for updated perl)
> 
> In addition to the dependencies above, there's actually a direct 
> dependency cygport -> texinfo.

Doh, right!

> I was aware of this when rebuilding texinfo, after an initial failed 
> attempt using SCALLYWAG.  The way I dealt with it was to forcibly update 
> perl, ignoring setup's warnings.  I don't know if there's a better way 
> to handle this in the future.  Maybe temporarily (or permanently?) 
> remove those dependencies on texinfo?

I think perhaps that maybe making those dependencies of cygport 
'suggests'/'recommended' (if we implemented that) rather than 'depends', 
as that would let the solver consider solutions without those packages 
installed.

I think would be ok, as texinfo doesn't actually require itself to build?

(There are perhaps a few packages which do have a real self-build-dep, 
but those are probably harder to build anyhow, and it should be 
explicitly recorded in build-requires?)