Re: setup 2.886 release candidate - please test

[Jon Turney <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>]

On 01/02/2018 20:21, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Jon Turney writes:
> > A new setup release candidate is available at:
> >
> >    https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.886.x86.exe    (32 bit version)
> >    https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.886.x86_64.exe (64 bit version)
>
> Locally compiled, but not well tested yet.
>
> > Changes compared to 2.885:
> > - Apply default problem solutions in unattended mode
> > - Make --include-source work correctly in unattended mode
> > - Allow parser to accept an empty depends: list (2.885 (only) will
> > report syntax errors when parsing setup.ini containing these, when the
> > corresponding change to calm is deployed)
>
> Do you have an idea yet why the last package gets orphaned (or did, if

'Yet'?  This is the first time I've heard of this!

Is this regression?

> it's already fixed)?  I will need to remove my workaround of placing an
> empty dummy at the end to try.

I guess you are saying that the last package listed in setup.ini appears 
as orphaned, when you have a re-written setup.ini which only contains 
one version per package?

Which I can easily believe happens, due to the rather weird way that the 
data from a parser reduction is transferred into the package database.