Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash 0.5.11.5

[Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@Shaw.ca>]

On 2021-09-21 10:58, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> On 9/21/2021 11:29 AM, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> On 2021-09-20 00:34, ASSI wrote:
>>> Cygwin dash Co-Maintainer writes:
>>>> The following packages have been upgraded in the Cygwin distribution:
>>>>
>>>> * dash    0.5.11.5
>>>
>>> The hint files were touched, but this version is still marked as test.
>>
>> So as previously suggested, and as we discussed trying this when I 
>> upgraded readline, it does appear that we need to bump the release to 
>> get a stable version,
> 
> No, all you have to do is remove the "test:" tags from the hint files.  
> I find the "untest" command to be the simplest way to accomplish this:
> 
>    https://cygwin.com/package-upload.html

Thanks for that pointer.

>> so suggest we mandate release 0 for test versions, as that would 
>> follow naturally.
> 
> There's no need for that.

Maybe it would be a good suggestion then?

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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