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Re: Retiring setup.hint
- From: Thomas Wolff <towo at towo dot net>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 20:59:38 +0100
- Subject: Re: Retiring setup.hint
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- References: <c02c6bce-39f5-a636-475a-2a9ed066a404@dronecode.org.uk>
Am 25.10.2017 um 21:42 schrieb Jon Turney:
I propose that calm will stop accepting uploads containing setup.hint
some time shortly after 2017-11-18.
This is approximately one year after the cygport release [1] which,
stopped generating these files, so if you're using cygport >= 0.23.0,
no action is needed.
Warnings that you need to upgrade cygport have been generated for more
than 6 months [2].
After setup.hint uploads are disabled, any remaining setup.hint in the
cygwin release on sourceware.org will be migrated to pvr.hint(s), as
per [3].
[1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-11/msg00078.html
[2] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2017-04/msg00024.html
[3] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2016-09/msg00025.html
I would appreciate to see some explanation about this. Why the change
and what are package maintainers expected to do?
If calm can simply "rename setup.hint to pvr.hint", what's the purpose
of all this?
Thomas