Re: package cygwin-d-... case sensitivity problems --

[Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>]

On 2019-06-18 11:46, Townsend, Paul wrote:
> The cygwin-doc-... package has several problems in at least the 
> /usr/share/man/man3 directory where multiple file names differ only in case, 
> i.e., the tar file contains, in this order,
>   usr/share/man/man3/jN.3.gz
>   usr/share/man/man3/jn.3.gz
> The jN.3.gz file contains the roff text and the jn.3.gz file contains a roff 
> .so directive pointing at jN.3.  The file that ends up in man3 is jn.3.gz
> and jN.3.gz disappears.
> The simplest solution would be to just remove jn.3.gz and similar .so files 
> from the tarball.  This would at least allow the roff text files to exist.
> FMI - where was the tarball created?  It certainly was not on a computer
> with Windows and case insensitivity.

A lot of package maintainers work on Linux and test in Windows VMs.
These conflicts should be picked up by the setup program tar extract.

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

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