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Re: Problem with newlib-man


On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 09:21:43AM -0400, Brian Gallew wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 May 2003, Brian Gallew wrote:
> >>As you can see, after bunzip2-ing, the tarfile which should
> >>theoretically contain *something* is empty.   So are the ones I
> >>downloaded from a number of other sites.
> > 
> > Please read the setup.hint for that package. ;-)
> 
> 2 > more setup.hint
> sdesc: "OBSOLETE: Man pages for some system functions"
> category: Doc
> requires: cygwin-doc
> 
> Right.  That makes sense.  But ...
> 
> @ newlib-man
> sdesc: "Man pages for some system functions"
> category: Doc
> requires: cygwin-doc
> version: 20020801
> install: release/newlib-man/newlib-man-20020801.tar.bz2 14 
> 4059d198768f9f8dc9372
> dc1c54bc3c3
> [prev]
> version: 20001118-1
> install: release/newlib-man/newlib-man-20001118-1.tar.bz2 56087 
> 26eeb3aac46fec78
> bc8fbffb315ba527
> 
> This is from the setup.ini.  So, for some reason, the "OBSOLETE:" bit 
> isn't shining thru, which may lead people (like me) to the unreasonable 
> expectation that this packages is, in fact, not obsolete at all. 
> Especially since extra measures have to be taken to get to the 
> setup.hint file, while setup.ini is what everyone in the world sees by 
> default.
> 

Could someone change the sdesc in the setup.hint to not have the colon?
Or, heck, newlib-man has been deprecated for a long time, why not just
get rid of it altogether?


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