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From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [RFE] calm needs to know about ZStandard compressed archives
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2021 17:22:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7c2fe573-7ee0-20a5-347a-19e93b5dba40@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mtxqj9mp.fsf@Rainer.invalid>

On 03.01.2021 16:57, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps writes:
>> We will also need to modify cygport to stop automatically add
>> OBSOLETES as most of this packages never existed
> 
> I think the right thing to do is to stop having actual packages for
> OBSOLETES and just emit the obsoltes: hint instead.

>> an overall cleaning of obsoletes package may be useful in the
>> near future. I need to work on it.
> 
> The mailing list is full of folks that seem to update their
> installations only after several years, so while I'm all for removing
> the empty packages, the obsolete hints need to stay.

I was referring only to the "empty packages" artificially created
of course.

> Regards,
> Achim.
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-03 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-25 19:59 Achim Gratz
2020-12-31 15:25 ` Jon Turney
2020-12-31 15:47   ` Achim Gratz
2020-12-31 15:51     ` Marco Atzeri
2020-12-31 15:52       ` Achim Gratz
2020-12-31 16:01         ` Marco Atzeri
2020-12-31 17:08           ` Jon Turney
2020-12-31 18:33             ` Achim Gratz
2020-12-31 19:05               ` Brian Inglis
2020-12-31 19:18                 ` Achim Gratz
2020-12-31 19:29                   ` Brian Inglis
2020-12-31 20:03                     ` Achim Gratz
2021-01-03 15:19             ` Jon Turney
2021-01-03 15:30               ` Marco Atzeri
2021-01-03 15:57                 ` Achim Gratz
2021-01-03 16:22                   ` Marco Atzeri [this message]
2021-01-04 14:30                   ` Jon Turney
2021-01-04 18:35                     ` Achim Gratz
2021-01-03 21:55               ` Marco Atzeri
2021-01-10 15:03                 ` Jon Turney
2021-01-10 18:32                   ` Achim Gratz
2021-01-24  9:35                   ` Achim Gratz
2021-02-07 14:05                     ` Jon Turney
2021-01-31 17:13                   ` Achim Gratz
2021-02-07 14:07                     ` Jon Turney

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