Re: GNU emacs 21.2-3 packages available

[Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at netscape dot net>]

Earnie Boyd wrote:

> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 06:45:32PM -0400, Joe Buehler wrote:
> >
> > > Joe Buehler wrote:
> > >
> > > New GNU emacs packages are available for upload to sources.redhat.com at:
> > >
> > > http://68.100.179.154:3000/cygwin/emacs-21.2-3/emacs/emacs-21.2-3-src.tar.bz2
> > > http://68.100.179.154:3000/cygwin/emacs-21.2-3/emacs/emacs-21.2-3.tar.bz2
> > > http://68.100.179.154:3000/cygwin/emacs-21.2-3/emacs/setup.hint
> > > http://68.100.179.154:3000/cygwin/emacs-21.2-3/emacs-el/emacs-el-21.2-3.tar.bz2
> > > http://68.100.179.154:3000/cygwin/emacs-21.2-3/emacs-el/setup.hint
> > > http://68.100.179.154:3000/cygwin/emacs-21.2-3/emacs-X11/emacs-X11-21.2-3.tar.bz2
> > > http://68.100.179.154:3000/cygwin/emacs-21.2-3/emacs-X11/setup.hint
> > >
> > > This version fixes tty subprocess functionality: telnet, ange-ftp, gnus and
> > > the like.
> > Uploaded.  Please add a note to your announcement that the deinstallation
> > of the old package will drop ctags exectuables so that a reinstall of that
> > package would be necessary.
> Would it drop ctags with
>
> requires: ctags cygwin
>
> in the hint file?
Yes, because the ctags version hasn't been bumped, so the installer 
thinks it is still there eventhough the removal of the old emacs package 
deletes them.  The new package, of course, doesn't reinstall them.

Cheers,
Nicholas