Re: cygport: Add VERSIONS and PKG_VERSIONS to pkg_pkg.cygpart

2016-09-18 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2016-09-17 13:23, Achim Gratz wrote: I've reworked the original patch by David ROthenberger to use override.hint so it'll keep working with calm. I still don't like this concept. But now that we have per-version hints, could calm be changed to accept e.g. a test: tag in such, the latest

Re: libargp inconsistent packaging

2016-09-18 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On 16/09/2016 11:15, Andrew Schulman wrote: > >> Andrew Schulman writes: > >>> Hi Marco. I think I thought about this in the past, but because the total > >>> size of this package is so small, I decided it wasn't worth the trouble to > >>> split it in two. I think that both packages would have

Re: per-version hints proposal

2016-09-18 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 18/09/2016 19:16, Achim Gratz wrote: Marco Atzeri writes: I suggest to remove the requirements. The main list have in automatic: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Re: per-version hints proposal

2016-09-18 Thread Achim Gratz
Marco Atzeri writes: > I suggest to remove the requirements. > > The main list have in automatic: > > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info:

Re: per-version hints proposal

2016-09-18 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 18/09/2016 18:41, Ken Brown wrote: Another thing: The page still says that all release announcements should contain information about unsubscribing from the cygwin-announce mailing list. But it seems that many (most?) maintainers have stopped doing this. And 'cygport announce' doesn't do

Re: per-version hints proposal

2016-09-18 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/18/2016 11:14 AM, Jon Turney wrote: On 18/09/2016 06:17, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 17/09/2016 08:14, Achim Gratz wrote: Jon Turney writes: Currently, the setup.hint file is shared between all versions. This means that manual intervention (by the package maintainer, or on sourceware) is

Re: per-version hints proposal

2016-09-18 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: > Jon Turney writes: >> I notice the section about postinstall scripts doesn't mention >> permanent postinsall scripts at all. >> >> Could you possibly provide a couple of paragraphs? > > I had sent them to this very list at the time. I need to dig them out > of the archive

minicom

2016-09-18 Thread Achim Gratz
I've compiled minicom for Cygwin for my own use. I'm intending to package it, but there is a bug that stumps my ability to debug: Opening the help screen makes minicom exit, which kind of defeats the purpose. If you press any key before the help screen is fully open, minicom continues to run and

Re: per-version hints proposal

2016-09-18 Thread Achim Gratz
Jon Turney writes: > I notice the section about postinstall scripts doesn't mention > permanent postinsall scripts at all. > > Could you possibly provide a couple of paragraphs? I had sent them to this very list at the time. I need to dig them out of the archive unless you're faster. Regards,

Re: per-version hints proposal

2016-09-18 Thread Jon Turney
On 18/09/2016 06:17, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 17/09/2016 08:14, Achim Gratz wrote: Jon Turney writes: Currently, the setup.hint file is shared between all versions. This means that manual intervention (by the package maintainer, or on sourceware) is needed when versions have different