On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 20:47 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 8 13:34, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 15:49 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > ...it also handles the "autodep" and "incver_ifdep" stuff in setup.hint. > > > > > > "autodep" (and "noautodep") seems to have a bug, though, as we discussed > > > a while back. It seems to miss adding some of the required dependencies. > > > > Do we really need autodep anymore? > > IDK. autodep is only used to create the auto-dependency to the "cygwin" > package, except for the two "noautodep" packages _update-info-dir and > _autorebase. The reason, afair, was to make sure the dependency chain > created by setup when (un-)installing in the right order makes sense.
I thought the reason was to (attempt to) assure proper ordering of postinstall scripts, which (besides not working properly, as we discovered a while ago) we shouldn't need to rely on any more with the current setup. -- Yaakov
