Re: per-version hints proposal

2016-09-16 Thread Achim Gratz
Jon Turney writes: > Currently, the setup.hint file is shared between all versions. > > This means that manual intervention (by the package maintainer, or on > sourceware) is needed when versions have different dependencies. > > To automate this problem out of existence, I suggest replacing the > s

Re: [PATCH cygport] Write and upload pvr.hint rather than setup.hint

2016-09-16 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2016-09-01 12:12, Jon Turney wrote: On 30/08/2016 13:24, Jon Turney wrote: For a source-only package, rather than just a skip: key, write category:, requires:, ldesc: and sdesc: keys as well. This had a rather unfortunate bug which made it always generate a source-only package hint (i.e. wi

Re: calm now automatically removes stale package versions

2016-09-16 Thread Jon Turney
On 16/09/2016 07:01, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On 2016-09-15 14:29, Jon Turney wrote: I deployed an update to calm today which should add evicting stale package versions (package versions that are no longer accessible by the installer) from the release area. Yeah, one less thing for me to do on

Re: libargp inconsistent packaging

2016-09-16 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 16/09/2016 11:15, Andrew Schulman wrote: Andrew Schulman writes: Hi Marco. I think I thought about this in the past, but because the total size of this package is so small, I decided it wasn't worth the trouble to split it in two. I think that both packages would have to include the doc files

Re: libargp inconsistent packaging

2016-09-16 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Andrew Schulman writes: > > Hi Marco. I think I thought about this in the past, but because the total > > size of this package is so small, I decided it wasn't worth the trouble to > > split it in two. I think that both packages would have to include the doc > > files, so there wouldn't be much g