Re: cygcheck-dep and _obsolete packages

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

On 15/03/2018 18:21, Mikhail Usenko via cygwin wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 22:57:05 +0100
> Marco Atzeri <...> wrote:
>
> > Hi Mikhail,
> >
> > as latest setup skips the installation of _obsolete packages
> > can you adjust the behaviour of cygcheck-dep to ignore
> > the false warning ?
> >
> > /usr/bin/cygcheck-dep: WARNING: broken dependencies:
> > /usr/bin/cygcheck-dep:   installed package 'cygwin/xorg-server-devel'
> > /usr/bin/cygcheck-dep:   depends on the following required packages that are
> > /usr/bin/cygcheck-dep:   not installed; these dependencies will be discarded
> > /usr/bin/cygcheck-dep: ( fontsproto inputproto kbproto presentproto
> > randrproto renderproto resourceproto scrnsaverproto xextproto
> > xf86bigfontproto xineramaproto xproto )
>
> Hello, Marco
> I will change the script (along with dropping cygwinports support).
> At present cygcheck-dep prints out exactly what setup.ini claims about
> what the package is requiring, and as per I have understood, now setup.exe
> does not install requisites from the _obsolete category, using instead
> the packages by which they are obsoleted.

Just to be clear, the category is irrelevant here, it's the fact that 
xorgproto obsoletes these packages that is significant.

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