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From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>,
	"cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: [DEPRECATED] perl distributions
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2022 13:05:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dd21983d-f949-080c-90f4-355682d48483@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2f9fbbe-a554-9834-7797-9be536c27101@gmail.com>

On 09/07/2022 08:00, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 30.01.2021 10:04, 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 think these all depend on 'perl5_030' (which is provided by a single 
remaining version of perl) or 'perl5_026' (which nothing provides anymore)

Long-term, I think calm should be taught to expire (= move to the vault) 
packages which are no longer installable because their requires don't 
exist any more.

I'm not sure if you have access the ~cygwin-admin/bin/vault script (note 
this takes a shell glob as an argument which should match a specific 
package & version, if you want to manually do that...

(I think we need to retain packages there rather than remove them 
totally for legal reasons)

>> Further obsoletions:
>>
>> perl-Win32
>>
>> The version in perl-5.32 core is up-to-date, so that package no longer
>> serves a purpose.

This should probably be obsoleted by perl, then?

> 
> Hi Jon,
> how we should manage the obsolescence ?

  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-09 12:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-30  9:04 Achim Gratz
2021-01-30 15:21 ` Marco Atzeri
2021-01-31 17:15   ` Achim Gratz
2021-02-11 17:08     ` Jon Turney
2022-07-09  7:00 ` Marco Atzeri
2022-07-09 12:05   ` Jon Turney [this message]
2023-01-06 13:46 ` Jon Turney
2023-01-06 19:36   ` Achim Gratz

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