From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 117719 invoked by alias); 7 Oct 2018 09:31:09 -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 117660 invoked by uid 89); 7 Oct 2018 09:31:08 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=cygwincom, UD:cygwin.com, cygwin.com, H*r:Unknown X-HELO: blaine.gmane.org Received: from Unknown (HELO blaine.gmane.org) (195.159.176.226) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 07 Oct 2018 09:31:07 +0000 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g95Mn-0002Ny-Vn for cygwin-apps@cygwin.com; Sun, 07 Oct 2018 11:28:49 +0200 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com From: Achim Gratz Subject: Re: mintty should have skipped one version Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2018 09:31:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <3cb57895-9fdd-0007-f7bd-a8932439b7aa@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-10/txt/msg00006.txt.bz2 Am 07.10.2018 um 11:19 schrieb Thomas Wolff: > According to https://cygwin.com/packaging-hint-files.html#override.hint, > it should be "not associated with a specific /version-release/", that's > why I did not consider this for the use case. The override.hint is needed to record relations between different releases and/or to alter (or override) calm's standard interpretation of the release specific hint files, even retroactively. -- Achim. (on the road :-)