Re: Bug in upset? [Was: Re: R: Problem [1.7]: link /bin/lzma -> xz]

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

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On Mar 22 17:39, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > Since release-2 isn't supposed to have obsolete stuff in it can't we
> > just remove this directory entirely?
> 
> No.
> 
> How do you propose to accomodate people -- esp. testers who have
> accepted Corinna's plea to "please begin testing cygwin-1.7" -- that
> have an existing "lzma" package into their cygwin-1.7 installation? 
> They need to (automatically?) get that existing one removed and the new
> version from xz installed in its place (ignoring the fact that I screwed
> up the setup.hints -- TWICE -- this time).
> 
> Is the policy about obsolete files so hard-and-fast that we want to
> require current 1.7 users to manually perform these actions, "uninstall
> lzma and then install xz..."?

Isn't it a good time to split the release and release-2 areas into
two separate directories?  Now that many maintainers create separate
packages for 1.5 and 1.7, updating 1.5 and 1.7 directories and always
having to delete the 1.5 stuff from the 1.7 release-2 directory
afterwards is troublesome and bound to produce mistakes.  And the
union of the two directories makes increasingly less sense.


Corinna

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