On 21/01/2021 16:52, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: > On 21.01.2021 17:37, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin wrote: >> On 21/01/2021 16:27, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: >>> On 21.01.2021 17:18, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin wrote: >>>> On 19/01/2021 21:08, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-announce via Cygwin >>>> wrote: >>>>> Several python packages have been uploaded as test >>> > >>> >>> it should pull python38-pylint >>> >>> $ cygcheck -l python38-pylint | grep bin >>> /usr/bin/pylint3.8 >>> /usr/bin/epylint3.8 >>> /usr/bin/pyreverse3.8 >>> /usr/bin/symilar3.8 >>> /usr/bin/pylint >>> /usr/bin/epylint >>> /usr/bin/pyreverse >>> /usr/bin/symilar >> >> Okay, just realised I was wrong about the shortcut, as I do have >> /usr/bin/pylint3.6. My bad. >> >> However, it didn't pull python38-pylint in for me. An interesting thing >> just happened when I opened setup again though: it says pending >> operations are to remove "pylint" and install "python38-pylint". When I >> told it I wanted to keep "pylint" I got a dependency issue, see attached >> screenshot. >> >> In case it's helpful to know, I had the old "pylint" package installed >> already and upgraded it to your test version. >> >> Hamish >> > > on the setup.ini you can see > > ----------------------------------- > @ python38-pylint > sdesc: "python code static checker" > ... > [test] > version: 2.6.0-1 > ... > depends2: python38, python38-astroid, python38-isort, python38-mccabe, > python38-pytest, python38-toml > > obsoletes: pylint    <<<<<< > > build-depends: cygport > -------------------------------- > > install one and it will remove the other, also as they have > the same content in this case That makes sense, but that's not what happened here - it prompted to remove "pylint" itself and install "python38-plint" but only after running setup again after installing the new test "pylint" package. Maybe I'm being a bit stupid but this seems like weird behaviour in setup.exe - I would have expected it to do this when I asked to upgrade "pylint" in the first place, or to automatically install "python38-pylint" when I selected "pylint". Hamish