per-version hints proposal

[Ken Brown]

On 9/18/2016 11:14 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 18/09/2016 06:17, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> On 17/09/2016 08:14, Achim Gratz wrote:
>>> Jon Turney writes:
>>>> Currently, the setup.hint file is shared between all versions.
>>>>
>>>> This means that manual intervention (by the package maintainer, or on
>>>> sourceware) is needed when versions have different dependencies.
>>>>
>>>> To automate this problem out of existence, I suggest replacing the
>>>> setup.hint file in an upload with a package-version-release.hint file.
>>>
>>> Since this is now moving into reality, the documentation in
>>>
>>> https://cygwin.com/setup.html
>>>
>>> has become out-of-date.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Achim.
>>>
>>
>> are we not yet missing an updated cygport release ?
>> Or a test one
>
> Yes, this is only usable by people running cygport from git, currently.
>
> After I wrote the documentation update, I found it needs to describe
> the backwards-compatible use of setup.hint.
>
> Given that, there didn't seem to be any harm in pushing the
> documentation update now.
>
>
> Achim,
>
> I notice the section about postinstall scripts doesn't mention permanent
> postinsall scripts at all.
>
> Could you possibly provide a couple of paragraphs?

Another thing: The page still says that all release announcements should 
contain information about unsubscribing from the cygwin-announce mailing 
list.  But it seems that many (most?) maintainers have stopped doing 
this.  And 'cygport announce' doesn't do it.  Should that instruction be 
removed?

Ken