Re: Fwd: calm: cygwin package upload report from sourceware.org for Marco Atzeri

[Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>]

On 30/07/2016 13:47, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 30/07/2016 05:45, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> I have some problem to remove the obsolete versions
>>
>> The usual trick before was to remove all
>>
>> x86/release/ImageMagick/-ImageMagick-6.9.0.0-4-src.tar.xz
>> x86/release/ImageMagick/libMagickC++6_5/-libMagickC++6_5-6.9.0.0-4.tar.xz
>> x86/release/ImageMagick/libMagickC++6_5/-setup.hint
>>
>> x86_64/release/ImageMagick/-ImageMagick-6.9.0.0-4-src.tar.xz
>> x86_64/release/ImageMagick/libMagickC++6_5/-libMagickC++6_5-6.9.0.0-4.tar.xz
>>
>>
>> x86_64/release/ImageMagick/libMagickC++6_5/-setup.hint
>> x86_64/release/ImageMagick/libMagickCore6/-libMagickCore6-6.9.0.0-4.tar.xz
>>
>> x86_64/release/ImageMagick/libMagickCore6/-setup.hint
>>
>> but calm seems to have problem with it.
>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry about the inconvenience.
>
> The problem that calm is complaining about here is that removing the
> last version of these packages will leave the package with no versions
> (since you want to remove the package entirely).
>
> While historically permitted by uspet, removing a package doesn't make
> much sense, currently.
>
> setup doesn't do anything about installed packages which have
> disappeared from setup.ini, so the files a removed package contains will
> linger indefinitely in any existing installs (which also creates the
> possibility of pathname collisions with future packages)
>
> Normally, where a package has been replaced or superseded by another
> package, it is updated with an empty, obsolete version, which depends on
> it's replacement, so existing installs are updated to that.
>
> But that's not usually appropriate for an old soversion of a shared
> library (even though it has no users left in the distro, there may be
> 3rd party packages or local builds which depend on the old soversion),
> so it should be kept.

tried also that.

Leaving 6.9.0.0-4 libs as they are but calm also complains
that the package "libMagickCore6" and "libMagickC++6_5" are incomplete.
So I can not update ImageMagick at all.

All the files are in the stage area now, I just avoided to put
the "!ready" tag.


> I'd appreciate your help in understanding if either of those cases
> applies to these packages, or if something else is needed here...

currently nothing on cygwin depends on

libMagickC++6_5
libMagickCore6

They were obsoleted ~ 1 year ago
https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-07/msg00003.html


Regards
Marco