From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 95821 invoked by alias); 4 Apr 2017 17:38:54 -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 95800 invoked by uid 89); 4 Apr 2017 17:38:53 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=migration, Hx-languages-length:895, H*Ad:D*org.uk, uploads X-HELO: out1-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.25) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 04 Apr 2017 17:38:51 +0000 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E7F520A21 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2017 13:38:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 04 Apr 2017 13:38:51 -0400 X-ME-Sender: Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host86-179-113-198.range86-179.btcentralplus.com [86.179.113.198]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id B717A7E350 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2017 13:38:50 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: residual setup.hint To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <305df537-3da2-fc5b-c546-3dd3c5a1c723@gmail.com> From: Jon Turney Message-ID: Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 17:38:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <305df537-3da2-fc5b-c546-3dd3c5a1c723@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2017-04/txt/msg00012.txt.bz2 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