Re: Fwd: calm: cygwin package report for Ken Brown

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

On 20/03/2023 22:17, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> It looks like my plan for having scallywag deploy all the TeX Live 
> packages won't work (see below).  calm would have to be more permissive 
> and allow deploying a package that requires something that will be 
> provided by a future package.
> 
> In this case, I made asymptote require tl_2023, which will be provided 
> by the next texlive release.  But I don't want to deploy the latter 
> until all the other packages for TeX Live 2023 have been deployed.
> 
> Unless this is easy to fix, I'll just forget about using scallywag and 
> go back to my old method of uploading everything manually.

This is trivially fixable.

calm already has a list of 'provides which don't exist (yet)', so I 
think I just need to add tl_2023 and tl_basic_2023 to that list

Future work: make these regexes so we don't have same problem again in a 
years time.

> 
> Ken
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: calm: cygwin package report for Ken Brown
> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 21:57:12 -0000
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> 
> ERROR: package 'asymptote' version '2.85-1' depends: 'tl_2023', but 
> nothing satisfies that
> ERROR: error while validating merged x86_64 packages for Ken Brown
> SUMMARY: 2 ERROR(s)

Maybe calm doesn't need to do this kind of check any more?

But then people might write REQUIRES="typoed-package-name" and not 
notice until it's uninstallable, so I don't know.