On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 11:04:48PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Reini Urban wrote: > >> Christopher Faylor schrieb: >> > On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 08:44:40PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: >> > > > I want to take over and maintain the cygwin version of mhash-0.9.1 >> > > > It was probably just an oversight, because their DLL building >> > > > instructions are from the CYGWIN FAQ, just wrongly applied. >> > > > Builds out of the box after removing the mingw stuff. >> > > > >> > > > I want to package it as single version (no mhash-devel), because both >> > > > are very small. >> > > > Will be ready for review tommorrow. >> > > >> > > well, today actually. >> > > >> > > wget -q -O - http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/mhash/get.sh | sh >> > >> > >> > Gerrit, if you can verify that this works as expected, I'll upload >> > ASAP. >> >> Ah, and if you upload it please remove mhash-devel, since mhash-0.9.1-1 >> includes the devel stuff also. I already wrote it, but double is better. >> Or leave it as [prev]. As you want. (I don't think so) >> >> And gerrit or volker are busy... > >Isn't the usual solution for this to provide an empty mhash-devel package >as [curr]? That way people will get mhash-devel uninstalled from their >systems, rather than having mhash and mhash-devel share files (which will >be removed if mhash-devel *is* uninstalled manually later).
Yes, that's the usual way. I've created a dummy package to accomplish this. cgf