calm hint files

calm hint files

[Thomas Wolff]

Upload seems to want two hint files, which even have to be different;
one needs a homepage entry, the other must not have one, or an error 
will be reported.
Can this please be smoothed out?
Thomas

Re: calm hint files

[Jon Turney]

On 23/12/2022 09:00, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Upload seems to want two hint files, which even have to be different;
> one needs a homepage entry, the other must not have one, or an error 
> will be reported.

This isn't quite an accurate description: A hint is expected for the 
source package (of which there must be exactly one), and for each 
install package (of which there must be at least one).

> Can this please be smoothed out?

These things are different because they are different: e.g. It's not 
meaningful to attribute a set of run-time dependencies to a source 
package, etc.

What's valid, and how they are different should be described correctly 
by [1], if you think that's in error, please let me know.

Anyhow, I think the answer to your request must be 'no'.  If you choose 
not to use cygport, for reasons I'm not going to enquire about, then 
you've chosen to taken on the work of generating a package in the format 
we expect, and to keep up with changes in that format.

That said: there is some code run on an upload which tries to be helpful 
to people running cygport prior to 0.34.0 (May 2020, when we added hints 
for source packages), trying to massage their uploads into an acceptable 
form, which seems to have given you some struggles with confusing errors 
in the past, so I'll remove that at some stage, since people have had 
plenty of time to upgrade...

[1] https://cygwin.com/packaging-hint-files.html