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

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

On Mar 20 23:17, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> 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.

Wouldn't it make sense to be able to define this in the cygport file
somehow?  Or does that open a can of worms?


Corinna