Re: how to remove curl replace-versions: 7.86.0-1 hint for test version promoted and superceded

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

On 19/11/2022 15:39, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2022-11-19 08:13, 
> cygwin-no-reply-rDBXBDvO6BXQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org wrote:
>> WARNING: package 'curl' replace-versions: uselessly lists version 
>> '7.86.0-1', which is <= current version '7.86.0-2'

The 'replace-versions' information is kept in the override.hint file [1]

[1] https://cygwin.com/packaging-hint-files.html#override.hint

For future reference, you can upload them as any other file (so, in this 
case, you could have removed or uploaded an empty file in their place).

In this case, since I added them, I have removed those override.hint 
files for you.

>> WARNING: package 'curl' replace-versions: lists version '7.86.0-1', 
>> which is also available to install

Not sure, but this probably indicates a calm bug of some sort.

For reasons, the solver won't replace a version marked to distupgrade 
(by replace-versions:) if it's also available to install.  This warning 
is meant to alert on that situation.

If I didn't remove the 7.86.0-1 packages when I added this override to 
withdraw it [2], I think this should have been alerting all along.

[2] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2022-October/252392.html