From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 98356 invoked by alias); 28 Jan 2018 15:07:32 -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 98343 invoked by uid 89); 28 Jan 2018 15:07:32 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_NUMSUBJECT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=planned, Planned, Hx-languages-length:879, Hx-spam-relays-external:ESMTPA X-HELO: out3-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out3-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.27) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 28 Jan 2018 15:07:31 +0000 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id B01A920E9C for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2018 10:07:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 28 Jan 2018 10:07:29 -0500 X-ME-Sender: Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host86-173-196-20.range86-173.btcentralplus.com [86.173.196.20]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 5AC2624691 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2018 10:07:29 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Planned setup.ini changes for early 2018 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <5e585f56-b4b1-753d-7ca8-0f7894194fa9@dronecode.org.uk> <3228510c-3e45-bc58-9aab-f88268d50261@dronecode.org.uk> From: Jon Turney Message-ID: <8c5b63a1-c409-b04e-7182-28c5c106dc22@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 15:07:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3228510c-3e45-bc58-9aab-f88268d50261@dronecode.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2018-01/txt/msg00094.txt.bz2 On 22/01/2018 23:13, Jon Turney wrote: > On 10/01/2018 22:44, Jon Turney wrote: >> >> * Add depends: to version descriptions >> >> This is a version-specific list of required packages (as opposed to >> requires:, which is per-package, and contains the union of the >> dependencies for all versions). >> >> I believe that historical setup versions will either ignore, or can >> handle depends: (just containing package names, without version >> relations) relatively sanely (see [1] et seq. for details). > > On further testing, it's not safe to expose some versions of setup to > 'depends:' lines, so these will have to be called 'depends2:' or > suchlike, so they are safely ignored. I deployed a calm update today which adds this header to the generated setup.ini This should be ignored by all currently released setup versions.