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Re: [ITP, RFU] Unison: new, updated, and obsoleted packages
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 11:05:43 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ITP, RFU] Unison: new, updated, and obsoleted packages
- References: <3s1t83ho95kfne31vkutab4tscbo8cgcn3@4ax.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Jul 6 14:27, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> Question: what should I do about these obsolete packages? I could release
> new setup.hints for them with category: _obsolete, but would that force users
> to uninstall them the next time they updated? I don't want to maintain those
> packages any more, but I don't want to force users to uninstall them either.
I don't think you need to worry. setup won't force users to uninstall
packages when they become obsoleted. Just send new setup.hint files,
I will move the packages in the _obsolete subdir then.
> # unison2.27
> wget \
> http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/unison2.27/setup.hint \
> http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/unison2.27/unison2.27-2.27.29-1.tar.bz2 \
> http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/unison2.27/unison2.27-2.27.29-1-src.tar.bz2
> # unison2.17
> wget \
> http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/unison2.17/unison2.17-2.17.1-2.tar.bz2 \
> http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/unison2.17/unison2.17-2.17.1-2-src.tar.bz2
> # unison2.13
> wget \
> http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/unison2.13/unison2.13-2.13.16-2.tar.bz2 \
> http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/unison2.13/unison2.13-2.13.16-2-src.tar.bz2
Uploaded.
Corinna
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