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Re: libpopt0 empty archive
- From: Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:37:57 +0100
- Subject: Re: libpopt0 empty archive
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On 11/14/2014 4:07 PM, cyg Simple wrote:
Package maintainers,
I found that /x86_64/release/popt/libpopt0/libpopt0-1.16-1.tar.xz is
an empty archive file. Fortunately there is a .bz2 archive that
contains the library.
The setup.hint for the libpopt0 library states it is obsolete but
cygutils still requires it making the obsolete a lie.
not exactly, as reported in the setup.ini
@ libpopt0
sdesc: "Obsolete libpopt library"
category: _obsolete
requires: popt
so any package requiring libpopt0 will install popt
where currently the lib resides
$ cygcheck -l popt
/usr/bin/cygpopt-0.dll
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
..
Regards
Marco
PS: I presume "mistake" is a better word than "lie" in this context