On 03/05/2023 13:19, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
On 5/2/2023 4:45 PM, Achim Gratz via Cygwin-apps wrote:
Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps writes:
There's an updated report available [1], which should list the
affected packages.
[1] https://cygwin.com/packages/reports/perl_rebuilds.html
Thanks. The newly obsolated packages (due to core now recent enough)
are still shown in this list (that's probably to be expected).
Ah, right. That's probably a flaw in the logic used to generate this
report, packages which are obsoleted by something else can just be ignored.
I wonder if those obsoleted packages are confusing setup. In a new
Cygwin installation, choosing only the base packages and cygport, setup
wants to install perl-Test-Harness (and therefore perl 5.32). Or maybe
there's something else causing perl 5.32 to be chosen, but I don't see it.
Yeah, there's something weird going on there:
Just adding just perl 5.36 to base seems to work fine.
Adding cygport, pulls in automake-{12,13,14}, which depend on perl-Carp
or perl-Test-Harness. I'm not sure why the solver then goes on to choose
those packages, rather than perl_base which obsoletes them.
