Python - plan & execution

[Jon Turney]

On 08/06/2020 21:02, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 08.06.2020 21:20, Jon Turney wrote:
>>
>> Marco,
>>
>> The python2 2.7.18-1 update dropped the dependency of python2-devel on 
>> python27-devel
>>
>> Was this deliberate?
>>
>> (I noticed because this broke meson's CI, which installs python2-devel 
>> and expects to get Python.h etc.)
>>
>> Thanks for the python updates!
> 
> no. I had the impression to have only changed the version number
> and rebuilt.
> 
> But I could remember wrong

Yeah, that seems to be the case, looking at the cygport.

Perhaps cygport's automatic dependency detection didn't work correctly 
for some reason? (It probably doesn't if python27-devel isn't already 
installed, for e.g.)