how to obsolete now-removed subpackage?

[Jon Turney]

On 20/01/2022 13:12, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 1/20/2022 7:14 AM, Glenn Strauss wrote:
>> lighttpd 1.4.64 removes long-deprecated packages,
>> including mod_trigger_b4_dl (replaceable with a lua script, if needed)
>>
>> I am trying to build using lighttpd.cygport and after uploading package
>> 1.4.64-1, I got errors, so I tried adding
>>    PKG_OBSOLETES="lighttpd-mod_trigger_b4_dl"
>> to lighttpd.cygport and building lighttpd.cyport package 1.4.64-2
> 
>> Am I using PKG_OBSOLETES incorrectly?
> 
> Yes.  The cygport manual says that PKG_OBSOLETES is "A single-line 
> string containing a list of package(s) which this package replaces....  
> Note that the PKG_OBSOLETES name is descriptive rather than literal, 
> where "PKG" should be substituted with the name of the binary package 
> whose contents it describes."

I think this might be a bug in calm (which processes the package uploads).

How OBSOLETES is put into effect has changed slightly in the latest 
version of cygport, and calm hasn't caught up with it yet.

Thanks for reporting this.