From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ej1-x634.google.com (mail-ej1-x634.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::634]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ED80B3854833 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 2021 19:34:18 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org ED80B3854833 Received: by mail-ej1-x634.google.com with SMTP id c10so15878100ejx.9 for ; Sun, 07 Mar 2021 11:34:18 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=fhiKq8L+i6v4O+wokF+B/4uadTpDIEhUv/9t7Fr3IA8=; b=fQttCuYvA+OmbvEldO9P2ONzm1DApRyyf/UUUZcwtVSyCHrvHroMLRFRa4PO/mPhyn tun/TCD7vJXSiJt0VNtrp+zTCRX6p4X7YXjV+e1i/ptnoPzqbpma+vUTqby4bRtWw8GM FDrGZSDOeEQvhzt3LtQ95RCAFa8dmckMiRUgRIMDEejS8gXt87+u2Z9MbtRWTW8LDzsj gasI6QwugdFfPGBwA4K7Wp0LOpX++lbQZZtKmhOXIgvSmgeMnlQpAxRrap1XaaHOpCIB 8Aq5/+rV+IkEDP8c4PNVIHDjvkCQpysHVNMIj7HrlFvgGXcE+GLDgHFVvQaW4EN5DF6g gWuQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530GRMi25Lxl4FC7bZde6CZFCX74P5fGW/W11JLG2YwZq8SXagtw 2G2CnRUWHXntL8jYwAfdWswZDGn84M8= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJzP6qkP7F7nUGMqsvVHDxGxY2KtAoBSETk87WCHlcYBejuHzzVixQZevfTgZsmVZtUqpCX8BQ== X-Received: by 2002:a17:907:7249:: with SMTP id ds9mr12067088ejc.9.1615145658095; Sun, 07 Mar 2021 11:34:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.121] (pd9ed5ff5.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [217.237.95.245]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c10sm5548310edt.64.2021.03.07.11.34.17 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 07 Mar 2021 11:34:17 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: python packages To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3a709c27-6756-ed6e-925b-d1d45b6c057b@dronecode.org.uk> <148cabcd-a890-d1bd-6fba-209225c5bb2c@dronecode.org.uk> <459f09e0-1b87-cf8f-7ab4-81950e80b353@cornell.edu> From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2021 20:34:14 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <459f09e0-1b87-cf8f-7ab4-81950e80b353@cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Language: it Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, DKIM_VALID_EF, FREEMAIL_FROM, KAM_ASCII_DIVIDERS, NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2021 19:34:24 -0000 On 07.03.2021 17:58, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: >> I have a CI job which runs 'setup -q -P python3,python3-lxml'.  It's >> nice if that gets me something where "python3 -c 'import lxml'" works, >> and doesn't require changing every time the default python version is >> updated. > > Currently python3 is a meta-package whose main purpose is to require the > default python version (currently python38).  Marco, couldn't you just > make python3-foo a meta-package that requires the corresponding > python*-foo (currently python38-foo)? > > Ken the issue is that Cygport creates the "obsolete" python3-foo that is replaced by python36-foo automatically. we should change cygport to use python38 instead --------------------------------------------------- $ cat python3-lxml/python3-lxml-4.6.2-1.hint category: _obsolete requires: python36-lxml sdesc: "Obsoleted by python36-lxml" ldesc: "The python3-lxml package is obsolete. Selecting this package for installation will cause the python36-lxml package, which replaces this one, to be installed instead." external-source: python-lxml ---------------------------------------------------