From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>,
"cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: [Attn. MAINTAINERS] Heads up: Perl 5.36.1 is imminent
Date: Wed, 3 May 2023 10:47:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8bfafc76-4072-4752-c5e2-7c22b08c26f1@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fc6497f0-9116-6560-9c77-5e0671560819@dronecode.org.uk>
On 5/3/2023 9:33 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 03/05/2023 13:19, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> I wonder if those obsoleted packages are confusing setup. In a new
>> Cygwin installation, choosing only the base packages and cygport,
>> setup wants to install perl-Test-Harness (and therefore perl 5.32).
>> Or maybe there's something else causing perl 5.32 to be chosen, but I
>> don't see it.
>
> Yeah, there's something weird going on there:
>
> Just adding just perl 5.36 to base seems to work fine.
>
> Adding cygport, pulls in automake-{12,13,14}, which depend on perl-Carp
> or perl-Test-Harness. I'm not sure why the solver then goes on to choose
> those packages, rather than perl_base which obsoletes them.
Could we work around the problem by removing the dependency of the
obsolete packages on perl5_032?
Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-03 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-01 20:00 Achim Gratz
2023-05-01 20:28 ` Marco Atzeri
2023-05-02 6:36 ` ASSI
2023-05-02 19:47 ` Achim Gratz
2023-05-05 20:15 ` Marco Atzeri
2023-05-05 20:44 ` Jon Turney
[not found] ` <43354da8-65cc-7224-fcee-81fe38afb512@gmail.com>
2023-05-06 13:12 ` Jon Turney
2023-05-07 11:39 ` Marco Atzeri
2023-05-02 20:34 ` Jon Turney
2023-05-02 20:45 ` Achim Gratz
2023-05-03 12:19 ` Ken Brown
2023-05-03 13:33 ` Jon Turney
2023-05-03 14:47 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2023-05-03 16:51 ` Achim Gratz
2023-05-03 18:41 ` Achim Gratz
2023-05-03 16:55 ` Achim Gratz
2023-05-03 22:01 ` Ken Brown
2023-05-06 13:34 ` Jon Turney
2023-05-06 18:31 ` Ken Brown
2023-05-09 20:15 ` Jon Turney
2023-05-20 7:57 ` Achim Gratz
2023-10-23 18:53 ` Jon Turney
2023-12-15 17:15 ` Jon Turney
2024-01-28 16:40 ` Jon Turney
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