From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sa-prd-fep-045.btinternet.com (mailomta31-sa.btinternet.com [213.120.69.37]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A18F13858C31 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2023 13:46:51 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org A18F13858C31 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=dronecode.org.uk Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=dronecode.org.uk Received: from sa-prd-rgout-004.btmx-prd.synchronoss.net ([10.2.38.7]) by sa-prd-fep-045.btinternet.com with ESMTP id <20230106134650.CJSM5235.sa-prd-fep-045.btinternet.com@sa-prd-rgout-004.btmx-prd.synchronoss.net>; Fri, 6 Jan 2023 13:46:50 +0000 Authentication-Results: btinternet.com; auth=pass (PLAIN) smtp.auth=jonturney@btinternet.com; bimi=skipped X-SNCR-Rigid: 613943C64AFC814B X-Originating-IP: [81.153.98.246] X-OWM-Source-IP: 81.153.98.246 (GB) X-OWM-Env-Sender: jonturney@btinternet.com X-VadeSecure-score: verdict=clean score=0/300, class=clean X-RazorGate-Vade: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgedvhedrkedtgdehjecutefuodetggdotefrodftvfcurfhrohhfihhlvgemuceutffkvffkuffjvffgnffgvefqofdpqfgfvfenuceurghilhhouhhtmecufedtudenucenucfjughrpefkffggfgfuvfhfhfgjtgfgsehtjeertddtfeejnecuhfhrohhmpeflohhnucfvuhhrnhgvhicuoehjohhnrdhtuhhrnhgvhiesughrohhnvggtohguvgdrohhrghdruhhkqeenucggtffrrghtthgvrhhnpeffkeeigfdujeehteduiefgjeeltdelgeelteekudetfedtffefhfeufefgueettdenucfkphepkedurdduheefrdelkedrvdegieenucevlhhushhtvghrufhiiigvpedtnecurfgrrhgrmhephhgvlhhopegludelvddrudeikedruddruddtiegnpdhinhgvthepkedurdduheefrdelkedrvdegiedpmhgrihhlfhhrohhmpehjohhnrdhtuhhrnhgvhiesughrohhnvggtohguvgdrohhrghdruhhkpdhnsggprhgtphhtthhopedvpdhrtghpthhtohepufhtrhhomhgvkhhosehnvgigghhordguvgdprhgtphhtthhopegthihgfihinhdqrghpphhssegthihgfihinhdrtghomh X-RazorGate-Vade-Verdict: clean 0 X-RazorGate-Vade-Classification: clean Received: from [192.168.1.106] (81.153.98.246) by sa-prd-rgout-004.btmx-prd.synchronoss.net (5.8.716.04) (authenticated as jonturney@btinternet.com) id 613943C64AFC814B; Fri, 6 Jan 2023 13:46:50 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2023 13:46:50 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.6.1 Subject: Re: [DEPRECATED] perl distributions To: "cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" , Achim Gratz References: <87sg6i3ieg.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Language: en-GB From: Jon Turney In-Reply-To: <87sg6i3ieg.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1193.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_SPF_HELO,KAM_DMARC_STATUS,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,NICE_REPLY_A,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_NONE,TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: On 30/01/2021 09:04, Achim Gratz wrote: > > The following distributions will no longer be available after the > perl-5.32 release as they have been deprecated upstream: > > perl-Gnome2 Achim Gratz > perl-Gnome2-Canvas Achim Gratz > perl-Gnome2-GConf Achim Gratz > perl-Gnome2-Rsvg Achim Gratz > perl-Gnome2-VFS Achim Gratz > perl-Gnome2-Vte Achim Gratz > perl-Gnome2-Wnck Achim Gratz > perl-Gtk2 Achim Gratz > perl-Gtk2-GladeXML Achim Gratz > perl-Gtk2-Notify Achim Gratz > perl-Gtk2-SourceView2 Achim Gratz > perl-Gtk2-Spell Achim Gratz > perl-Gtk2-Unique Achim Gratz > perl-Gtk2-WebKit Achim Gratz > > There are no external dependencies to these, so please just mark them as > OBSOLETE. I've vaulted all versions of these packages. Sorry for taking so long to get around to this. At the moment, 'OBSOLETE' in cygwin-pkg-maint has a very specific meaning: the line is simply ignored by calm. If you just mark a package as OBSOLETE without any other action, calm's going to warn about an unexpected package in the relarea. That works in the case when a package has been replaced by something else, and the historically necessary rearrangement to make the obsoleted package a sub-package of the package which replaces it has happened. (we didn't just remove the obsolete package because historically the obsoletion was recorded in the obsoleted package's metadata). (There's a whole other set of considerations for packages with the category '_obsolete', but again I think those are historical artefacts) I'm not sure what the word is for the status of these packages (but they are all deprecated upstream, don't have a direct replacement, probably aren't of any use to anybody, so clearly keeping them around any longer is pointless...)