[RFE] calm needs to know about ZStandard compressed archives

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Sun Jan 3 16:22:31 GMT 2021


On 03.01.2021 16:57, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps writes:
>> We will also need to modify cygport to stop automatically add
>> OBSOLETES as most of this packages never existed
> 
> I think the right thing to do is to stop having actual packages for
> OBSOLETES and just emit the obsoltes: hint instead.

>> an overall cleaning of obsoletes package may be useful in the
>> near future. I need to work on it.
> 
> The mailing list is full of folks that seem to update their
> installations only after several years, so while I'm all for removing
> the empty packages, the obsolete hints need to stay.

I was referring only to the "empty packages" artificially created
of course.

> Regards,
> Achim.
> 


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