Strange new release-2 errors from upset

Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Tue Nov 11 01:29:00 GMT 2008


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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> The mktemp package is obsolete.  It comes from coreutils these days.

Then the transition wasn't correctly handled, because the latest
mktemp-1.5-4 is a real package.  An empty 1.5-5 package should have been
created at the same time as coreutils-6.10-1 so that mktemp's mktemp(1)
would be replaced by coreutils'.

It's not too late to fix that, provided we artificially bump coreutils
to 6.10-2 simultaneously.

> I guess I should have made it clear that these were obsolete packages
> and hence were not part of the release-2 hierarchy.  I don't understand
> why non-obsolete packages in release are relying on obsolete packages
> though.

In some of those cases, IIRC the dependency was current when the file
was uploaded and made obsolete later.

The GNOME stuff is all mine; once the X11 transition takes place, I can
start working on moving those GNOME libraries from Ports back into the
distro.


Yaakov
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