Obsoletion procedures?

Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Wed Jun 14 02:30:00 GMT 2006


Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:

> The precedent seems to be to keep them indefinitely, unless they are
> affected by security issues or are otherwise hopelessly broken.

Yep.  Just dump 'em over in _obsolete, make a copy of 
<PKG>-x.y.z-r-src.tar.bz2 named lib<PKG>N-x.y.z-r-src.tar.bz2, remove 
the external-src: line in the lib's setup.hint, and let it rot.

--
Chuck



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