Am 25.10.2017 um 21:42 schrieb Jon Turney:

I propose that calm will stop accepting uploads containing setup.hint some time shortly after 2017-11-18.

This is approximately one year after the cygport release [1] which, stopped generating these files, so if you're using cygport >= 0.23.0, no action is needed.

Warnings that you need to upgrade cygport have been generated for more than 6 months [2].

After setup.hint uploads are disabled, any remaining setup.hint in the cygwin release on sourceware.org will be migrated to pvr.hint(s), as per [3].

[1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-11/msg00078.html
[2] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2017-04/msg00024.html
[3] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2016-09/msg00025.html
I would appreciate to see some explanation about this. Why the change and what are package maintainers expected to do? If calm can simply "rename setup.hint to pvr.hint", what's the purpose of all this?
Thomas

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