Process for retiring a subpackage

Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Fri Mar 18 17:45:00 GMT 2016


On 2016-03-18 07:24, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:46:53AM -0500, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>> Simpler:
>>
>> git_OBSOLETES="git-completion"
>>
>> Just leave this in indefinitely.
>
> Ah, handy!  One thing that's missing, which I suspect is a bug in
> Cygport: I'd expect the git-completion package produced after adding
> that would have a category of "_obsolete", but I needed to define
> git_completion_CATEGORY for that to happen.

No, that's not necessary, cygport handles that just fine.  Did you 
forget to remove git-completion from PKG_NAMES?

-- 
Yaakov



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