On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:56:37PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >According to Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) on 11/10/2008 6:28 PM: >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> The mktemp package is obsolete. It comes from coreutils these days. >> >> Then the transition wasn't correctly handled, because the latest >> mktemp-1.5-4 is a real package. An empty 1.5-5 package should have been >> created at the same time as coreutils-6.10-1 so that mktemp's mktemp(1) >> would be replaced by coreutils'. >> >> It's not too late to fix that, provided we artificially bump coreutils >> to 6.10-2 simultaneously. > >Chuck, according to http://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint, you still own >mktemp. I've got the coreutils-6.10-2 build ready to go on release; >are you in a position to push an empty tarball as mktemp-1.5-5, or >would you like me to take care of that as part of pushing the updated >coreutils?
I just created an empty mktemp-1.999-9 package. It occurred to me that maybe we should be giving these packages a little more distinctive names so that it is obvious that they are "special". cgf
