Re: Fwd: calm: cygwin package upload report from sourceware.org for Marco Atzeri

[Jon Turney <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>]

On 30/07/2016 05:45, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> I have some problem to remove the obsolete versions
>
> The usual trick before was to remove all
>
> x86/release/ImageMagick/-ImageMagick-6.9.0.0-4-src.tar.xz
> x86/release/ImageMagick/libMagickC++6_5/-libMagickC++6_5-6.9.0.0-4.tar.xz
> x86/release/ImageMagick/libMagickC++6_5/-setup.hint
>
> x86_64/release/ImageMagick/-ImageMagick-6.9.0.0-4-src.tar.xz
> x86_64/release/ImageMagick/libMagickC++6_5/-libMagickC++6_5-6.9.0.0-4.tar.xz
>
> x86_64/release/ImageMagick/libMagickC++6_5/-setup.hint
> x86_64/release/ImageMagick/libMagickCore6/-libMagickCore6-6.9.0.0-4.tar.xz
> x86_64/release/ImageMagick/libMagickCore6/-setup.hint
>
> but calm seems to have problem with it.

Hi,

Sorry about the inconvenience.

The problem that calm is complaining about here is that removing the 
last version of these packages will leave the package with no versions 
(since you want to remove the package entirely).

While historically permitted by uspet, removing a package doesn't make 
much sense, currently.

setup doesn't do anything about installed packages which have 
disappeared from setup.ini, so the files a removed package contains will 
linger indefinitely in any existing installs (which also creates the 
possibility of pathname collisions with future packages)

Normally, where a package has been replaced or superseded by another 
package, it is updated with an empty, obsolete version, which depends on 
it's replacement, so existing installs are updated to that.

But that's not usually appropriate for an old soversion of a shared 
library (even though it has no users left in the distro, there may be 
3rd party packages or local builds which depend on the old soversion), 
so it should be kept.

I'd appreciate your help in understanding if either of those cases 
applies to these packages, or if something else is needed here...

> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: calm: cygwin package upload report from sourceware.org for
> Marco Atzeri
> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 20:42:02 -0700 (PDT)
> From: cygwin-no-reply@cygwin.com
> To: marco.atzeri@gmail.com
>
> INFO: package 'libMagickC++6_5' appears to be source-only as it has no
> install tarfiles, adding 'skip:' hint
> ERROR: package 'libMagickC++6_5' doesn't have any versions
> INFO: package 'libMagickCore6' appears to be source-only as it has no
> install tarfiles, adding 'skip:' hint
> ERROR: package 'libMagickCore6' doesn't have any versions
> ERROR: error while validating merged x86_64 packages for Marco Atzeri