From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 87975 invoked by alias); 7 Oct 2018 09:19:20 -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 87958 invoked by uid 89); 7 Oct 2018 09:19:19 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,HTML_MESSAGE,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=packaged, cygwincom, UD:cygwin.com, cygwin.com X-HELO: mout.kundenserver.de Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (HELO mout.kundenserver.de) (212.227.17.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 07 Oct 2018 09:19:18 +0000 Received: from [192.168.178.45] ([95.91.209.148]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue107 [212.227.15.183]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1M8xwu-1g6LOH1XyI-0068Zl for ; Sun, 07 Oct 2018 11:19:15 +0200 Received: from [192.168.178.45] ([95.91.209.148]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue107 [212.227.15.183]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1M8xwu-1g6LOH1XyI-0068Zl for ; Sun, 07 Oct 2018 11:19:15 +0200 Subject: Re: mintty should have skipped one version To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <3cb57895-9fdd-0007-f7bd-a8932439b7aa@SystematicSw.ab.ca> From: Thomas Wolff Message-ID: Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2018 09:19:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3cb57895-9fdd-0007-f7bd-a8932439b7aa@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2018-10/txt/msg00004.txt.bz2 >> I think I uploaded mintty 2.9.3 with a dedicated mintty-2.9.3-0.hint file with >> the first two lines >> curr: 2.9.3-0 >> prev: 2.9.1-0 >> but setup still offers 2.9.2 as a choice. Did I miss the point in the upload >> procedure? Brian Inglis wrote: > Maybe use override.hint instead as described in: > > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2018-08/msg00047.html > > where replace-versions should reference 2.9.2-? According to https://cygwin.com/packaging-hint-files.html#override.hint, it should be "not associated with a specific /version-release/", that's why I did not consider this for the use case. Marco wrote: > In this case I prefer to remove the broken version, OK, so how would I do that? > As mentioned by Brian, can you for the future start with revision "-1" ? > In theory we are using revison 0.x for test version pre-release. > You are one of the few starting with 0 In contrast to many packages that are adapted from somewhere "upstream", cygwin is the native development environment for mintty, and is packaged without patches. I kind of like to express that with the -0.