From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: residual setup.hint
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 17:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d4df834b-9d58-925e-ee14-1c31e9b4323b@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <305df537-3da2-fc5b-c546-3dd3c5a1c723@gmail.com>
On 04/04/2017 14:28, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> Not sure if "calm" is excluding them, but I noticed for some
> packages we have now an excess of "setup.hint" as all existing
> revision have their own package-revison.hint
These old setup.hint files should be benign, unless they are recording
obsolete dependencies which aren't needed any more.
[...]
> Is a cleaning needed ?
Eventually, yes.
Unfortunately, a maintainer removing these files via '-setup.hint' is
not permitted, as I haven't implemented it due to the complexity of
determining if that is safe.
I've noted that there needs to be a migration plan for this (See [1])
I guess the first stage of which is to turn off uploads containing
setup.hint (as generated by older versions of cygport), but I'm not sure
we've reached that point in time, yet.
[1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2016-09/msg00025.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-04 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-04 13:28 Marco Atzeri
2017-04-04 17:38 ` Jon Turney [this message]
2017-04-05 20:55 ` Marco Atzeri
2017-04-05 22:42 ` Jon Turney
2017-04-06 3:39 ` Marco Atzeri
2017-04-07 11:17 ` Jon Turney
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