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From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: per-version hints proposal
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 15:28:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8b4723b2-1bd5-3604-1deb-cfd0a1c7b9d9@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)


Currently, the setup.hint file is shared between all versions.

This means that manual intervention (by the package maintainer, or on 
sourceware) is needed when versions have different dependencies.

To automate this problem out of existence, I suggest replacing the 
setup.hint file in an upload with a package-version-release.hint file.

This will be basically identical to the existing setup.hint, with the 
advantage that it can't be trampled on by a future version, with the 
following changes:

* 'skip' doesn't seem meaningful on a per-version basis.  Since it seems 
we can automatically detect packages which should have this applied 
anyhow (see the discussion in [1]), I'd suggest ignoring this hint, to 
be retired at some future date.

* 'curr', 'prev' and 'test' don't make sense on a per-version basis.  So 
I suggest a separate file for these version overrides (versions.hint?)


cygport will be updated to create a pvr.hint rather than setup.hint


calm will be changed so that:

* The requires: line written in setup.ini will contain the union of the 
requires: from each pvr.hint

* The sdesc:, ldesc:, category: and message: lines in setup.ini will be 
taken from the pvr.hint for the curr version

* While it's already effectively mandatory that a package has a curr 
version, this requirement will be documented and enforced.

* The source: line in setup.ini for a package version will consider any 
external-source: from the corresponding pvr.hint

* Uploads with a setup.hint will continue to work as before, for a 
transitional period.


No setup changes are required.


Immediately, this avoids the need for manual intervention when versions 
have different dependencies, and going forward, this is lays some 
groundwork for supporting per-version dependencies.


[1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2016-02/msg00017.html

             reply	other threads:[~2016-06-20 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-20 15:28 Jon Turney [this message]
2016-06-21 12:03 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-21 13:49   ` Marco Atzeri
2016-06-21 14:28     ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-21 15:32       ` Marco Atzeri
2016-06-21 14:09   ` Eric Blake
2016-06-21 14:27     ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-21 18:04     ` Achim Gratz
2016-06-21 18:27   ` Jon Turney
2016-08-30 12:24 ` Jon Turney
2016-08-31 19:14   ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-01 17:15     ` Jon Turney
2016-12-08 19:30   ` Jon Turney
2016-12-09 10:46     ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-12-09 11:10       ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-12-12 13:29         ` Jon Turney
2016-12-12 13:29       ` Jon Turney
2017-04-08 17:00     ` Achim Gratz
2017-04-12 20:51       ` Ken Brown
2017-04-13  6:24         ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-17  6:15 ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-18  5:17   ` Marco Atzeri
2016-09-18 15:14     ` Jon Turney
2016-09-18 16:12       ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-18 16:29         ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-19 15:37           ` Ken Brown
2016-09-19 18:24             ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-19 22:23               ` Jon Turney
2016-09-18 16:40       ` Ken Brown
2016-09-18 16:53         ` Marco Atzeri
2016-09-18 17:16           ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-18 18:08             ` Marco Atzeri
2016-09-22 13:44 ` Eric Blake
2016-12-10 22:42 ` How to override previous version? David Rothenberger
2016-12-11  0:03   ` Jon Turney

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