Re: cygwin-pkg-maint enhancements

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

On Jun 18 12:06, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 16/06/2023 10:47, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> > On Jun 11 19:01, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> > > 
> > > I've deployed an update to calm which makes a few small improvements to the
> > > way cygwin-pkg-maint is handled:
> > > 
> > > * Lines starting with a '#' are now ignored as a comment
> > > 
> > > * There's now a simple facility for grouping packages:
> > > 
> > > Define a group with a line starting with '@', e.g.:
> > > 
> > >      @upstream_project Maintainer1/Maintainer2
> > > 
> > > Then @upstream_project can used in a package's maintainer list, as a
> > > reference to that list of maintainers.
> > 
> > That's a great change. Thanks!
> > 
> > Would adding glob patterns help, too?  Kind of like
> > 
> >    aspell
> >    aspell-*
> > 
> 
> Well, maybe.
> 
> That's a more complex change, as the code just does a simple lookup by
> source package name at the moment.

Yeah, ok.  It would have to call the python glob function instead.
Assuming there is one, but I guess there is.

> It would also introduce the possibility for ambiguity. e.g. What is the
> following intended to mean?
> 
> aspell-*         Aye Person
> aspell-gibberish Anne Other

True. I thought we could simply avoid that, given we maintain the file
manually anyway.

Assuming the file is searched lineary from top to bottom, the problem
could be simply fixed by switching the order:

  aspell-gibberish Anne Other
  aspell-*         Aye Person

So, ordering from strict to fuzzy.

Anyway, it was just an idea.  We made it to here without globbing,
so it's not as if that would be necessary.


Corinna