Re: Anomalies in Source Distributions

[Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>]

At 01:08 PM 4/22/2004, you wrote:
>For whatever it's worth, I've come across the following anomalies which look
>like very minor configuration control bugs in the Cygwin source
>distributions (but what do I know ;-)

<snip>

>cygutils-1.2.4-1.tar.bz2 - The doc files have 1.2.4 instead of 1.2.4-1 on
>them in the .tar.bz2 file (due to .sh script).  Specifically:
>   /usr/share/doc/cygutils-1.2.4/AUTHORS
>   /usr/share/doc/cygutils-1.2.4/BRANCHES
>   /usr/share/doc/cygutils-1.2.4/COPYING
>   /usr/share/doc/cygutils-1.2.4/HOW-TO-CONTRIBUTE
>   /usr/share/doc/cygutils-1.2.4/NEWS
>   /usr/share/doc/cygutils-1.2.4/PROGLIST
>   /usr/share/doc/cygutils-1.2.4/README
>   /usr/share/doc/cygutils-1.2.4/TODO


No, this is fine.  These files are typically provided as part of the upstream
release of a package so they don't know about Cygwin package release numbers,
which is what the "-<number>" format is.


>   /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cygutils-1.2.4.README
>
>sharutils-4.2.1-3 - Similar to above for file:
>   /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/sharutils.README
>   which should be sharutils-4.2.1-3.README per your configuration system to
>the best of my understanding.


No.  The prescribed approach from <http://cygwin.com/setup.html> is:

  In your binary package, include a file /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/foo-vendor-  
  suffix.README containing (at a minimum) the information needed for an end 
  user to recreate the package. This includes CFLAGS settings, configure 
  parameters, etc. 

This doesn't say any package version number is a requirement.  There are 
benefits to leaving the number off (i.e. the same file applies to any 
version).



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