From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18411 invoked by alias); 29 Mar 2016 16:09:39 -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 17979 invoked by uid 89); 29 Mar 2016 16:09:39 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Net, ruby, colon, Hx-languages-length:1265 X-HELO: out4-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out4-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:09:28 +0000 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D63722690 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 12:09:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 29 Mar 2016 12:09:27 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host86-179-112-2.range86-179.btcentralplus.com [86.179.112.2]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id AA353C0001D for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 12:09:26 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: setup.hint documentation issues To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <56B9E71A.7010002@dronecode.org.uk> <20160209171010.GC25261@calimero.vinschen.de> <56C4826A.4080907@dronecode.org.uk> From: Jon Turney Message-ID: <56FAA8A6.7020205@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:36:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56C4826A.4080907@dronecode.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2016-03/txt/msg00158.txt.bz2 On 17/02/2016 14:23, Jon Turney wrote: > On 09/02/2016 17:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Feb 9 13:18, Jon Turney wrote: >>> * 'sdesc' text is mangled in setup.ini (but not the HTML package >>> list) >>> >>> In particular, it is forced to start with a capital letter (which >>> is incorrect when the sdesc starts with a command name which is >>> properly lower-case, e.g. "dash shell", etc.), and any text up to >>> and including the first colon is removed, presumably in an effort >>> to prevent people writing the package name again, (which mangles >>> perl and ruby module names in the description, e.g. "Ruby >>> Net::HTTP persistent connection support", ""Perl Math::Int64 >>> distribution", etc.) >>> >>> I'd suggest this mangling is removed, and sdesc starting >>> "packagename:" is explicitly reported. >> >> Sounds good, but where is this mangling performed? Upset? > > Yes, upset currently does this mangling. This mangling is no longer done. Instead there is an attempt to enforce the rule (from [1]) that, "the package name should not be part of the description", by detecting a sdesc which starts "packagename:" or "packagename -", but this is probably fairly easy to defeat. [1] https://cygwin.com/setup.html