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Re: Strange new release-2 errors from upset
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:56:37PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
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>According to Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) on 11/10/2008 6:28 PM:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> The mktemp package is obsolete. It comes from coreutils these days.
>>
>> Then the transition wasn't correctly handled, because the latest
>> mktemp-1.5-4 is a real package. An empty 1.5-5 package should have been
>> created at the same time as coreutils-6.10-1 so that mktemp's mktemp(1)
>> would be replaced by coreutils'.
>>
>> It's not too late to fix that, provided we artificially bump coreutils
>> to 6.10-2 simultaneously.
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>Chuck, according to http://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint, you still own
>mktemp. I've got the coreutils-6.10-2 build ready to go on release;
>are you in a position to push an empty tarball as mktemp-1.5-5, or
>would you like me to take care of that as part of pushing the updated
>coreutils?
I just created an empty mktemp-1.999-9 package. It occurred to me that
maybe we should be giving these packages a little more distinctive names
so that it is obvious that they are "special".
cgf