From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31774 invoked by alias); 3 Dec 2019 20:44:10 -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 31751 invoked by uid 89); 3 Dec 2019 20:44:09 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_SPF_HELO,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.1 spammy=outstanding, H*r:ip*192.168.1.106, interactive X-HELO: re-prd-fep-041.btinternet.com Received: from mailomta27-re.btinternet.com (HELO re-prd-fep-041.btinternet.com) (213.120.69.120) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 03 Dec 2019 20:44:07 +0000 Received: from re-prd-rgout-005.btmx-prd.synchronoss.net ([10.2.54.8]) by re-prd-fep-041.btinternet.com with ESMTP id <20191203204404.ENJA17769.re-prd-fep-041.btinternet.com@re-prd-rgout-005.btmx-prd.synchronoss.net> for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2019 20:44:04 +0000 Authentication-Results: btinternet.com; auth=pass (PLAIN) smtp.auth=jonturney@btinternet.com X-OWM-Source-IP: 31.51.205.214 (GB) X-OWM-Env-Sender: jonturney@btinternet.com X-VadeSecure-score: verdict=clean score=0/300, class=clean Received: from [192.168.1.106] (31.51.205.214) by re-prd-rgout-005.btmx-prd.synchronoss.net (5.8.337) (authenticated as jonturney@btinternet.com) id 5D834EE50DD030BA for cygwin-apps@cygwin.com; Tue, 3 Dec 2019 20:44:04 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH setup 00/11] Improve handling of specifying an obsolete package to be installed on the command line To: "cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" References: <20190801160519.32745-1-jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> <67c53414-03eb-fdae-250f-0a67b790e53b@cornell.edu> From: Jon Turney Message-ID: Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 20:44:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <67c53414-03eb-fdae-250f-0a67b790e53b@cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2019-12/txt/msg00008.txt.bz2 On 01/12/2019 19:31, Ken Brown wrote: > On 8/1/2019 12:05 PM, Jon Turney wrote: >> e.g. setup -q -g -P python3-lxml (which used to do something useful) >> currently gets you an (empty) python3-lxml package, which will be replaced >> by python36-lxml (which obsoletes it) on the next setup run. After this >> change, python36-lxml is installed instead. >> >> See also the dicusssion at >> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2017-10/msg00092.html et seq. (where I >> come to the (incorrect) conclusion that since we don't need this for >> interactive use, it's not needed) >> [...] > > Since you don't seem to have gotten any feedback on this patch series, I just > want to let you know that I've been running setup.exe with these patches for a > couple months, and I haven't seen any regressions. (But I haven't done any > systematic testing or review.) Thanks very much for giving these a try. I was recently reminded of these patches and thinking of doing a setup release to include them. Are there any other outstanding patches you are aware of?