On 11 July 2016 at 14:56, Mark Geisert wrote: > Mark Geisert writes: >> Doug Henderson writes: >> > To the maintainer of cygutils and cygutils-extra,. >> > >> > Please rebuild these packages to not use the obsolete package > libpopt0. >> > >> > I found two other packages, libbonoboui2_0 and libgnome2_0 which also >> > depended on libpopt0, but I was able to uninstall them with no >> > difficult. >> >> Sorry for the inconvenience. I'll look into this shortly. > > Not trying to avoid work :) but I hadn't heard that Cygwin's obsolete > package conventions could cause a problem for users. What issue does it > cause for you? Does it make packages hard to uninstall? Does it pull in > other unwanted packages? Any description of the undesirable behavior > would help me understand. > Thanks, > > ..mark
Mark, Out of curiosity, I checked for obsolete packages after seeing a recent post which suggested to remove obsolete packages while trying to diagnose and solve unusual problems. I think it was something to do with cygwin installs failing after Win10 upgrades. One obsolete package uninstalled with no complaint, but setup reported that libpopt0 was used by the 4 packages I mentioned above. I would presume that obsolete packages will not be maintained, and at some point may cease to function properly, resulting in the sudden failure of non-obsolete packages that depend on them. With that in mind, I would suggest that dependence on an obsolete package is an important trigger for preparing a new release for a package. TIA, Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
