To try to avoid packages lingering in the 'test' status indefinitely
(which leads to them not being installed by most users, as they don't
run setup with 'consider test packages' enabled, thus these packages
generally aren't getting used, so having them isn't generating much
value), I'm planning to change how calm expires packages:
Currently (in the absence of configuration otherwise [1]), calm will
retain up to 3 non-test versions, and 3 test versions, and expire all
other versions.
I plan to change this to also expire test versions which are superseded
by a non-test version (that is: expire test versions where a non-test
version with a higher version number exists).
I believe this makes the default behaviour closer to what package
maintainers are likely to want to happen.
This change will cause the following packages to be removed:
_autorebase-001091-0.1
cygutils-1.4.16-4
cygwin-3.3.0-0.1.9814cfd8f693
cygwin-3.3.0-0.2.6c1f49f83fde
fontforge-20201107p2-1
fontforge-20201107p8-1
gcc-11.2.0-0
grep-3.6-1
grep-3.7-1
gzip-1.10-1
libftdi1-1.4-1
libiconv-1.16-1
meson-0.54.2-3
mingw64-i686-gcc-11.1.0-0.1
mingw64-i686-gcc-11.2.0-0
mingw64-i686-gcc-7.3.0-1
mingw64-x86_64-gcc-11.1.0-0.1
mingw64-x86_64-gcc-11.2.0-0.1
mingw64-x86_64-gcc-7.3.0-1
openbabel-3.1.1p36-1
openbabel-3.1.1p36-2
rdiff-backup-2.0.0-1
readline-8.1-1
screen-4.6.2-3
texlive-collection-latexrecommended-doc-20210118-2
xorg-server-21.1.0-1
Brian, Ken,
The only packages I can see where this seems like it will do the wrong
thing are listed below. Before deploying this, would you like me to:?
grep: untest 3.6-1 and expire 3.0.1
gzip: untest 1.10-1 and expire 1.7-2
texlive-collection-latexrecommended-doc: untest 20210118-2 and expire
20210118-1
[1] See https://cygwin.com/packaging-hint-files.html#override.hint. Not
that override.hint files do not apply recursively currently.
