setup.ini has multiple "prev" entries ... Why?

[Jon Turney]

On 05/11/2017 18:04, Houder wrote:
> On 2017-11-05 18:32, Houder wrote:
>> On 2017-11-05 13:48, Houder wrote:
> Currently, I am only interested in the _specification_ that you have
> in mind for setup.ini ...

I try to keep [1] accurate and up-to-date, but the 'specification' is 
really "what setup accepts" :(

Currently, the ordering requirements are:

1) The version to be installed when test versions are selected (the 
highest test, unless one is explicitly specified in override.hint) is 
the last [test] section

2) [curr] is first

But since both these things are to work around historical setup 
limitations, I don't think they merit mention in [1], and might not be 
the case in a future when we no longer care about setup versions old 
enough to need them.

[1] https://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/setup.ini.html

> Another (edited) snippet from setup.ini: (where the latest test entry is
> not the last entry (of the "test" entries ?????)
> 
> @ xorg-server-common
> sdesc: "X.Org X server common data"
> ldesc: "X.Org X server common data"
> category: X11
> requires: dri-drivers perl_base xauth xcursor-themes xkbcomp 
> xkeyboard-config
> version: 1.19.5-1 <- current
> ...
> [test]
> version: 1.19.3-2 <==== latest test?
> ...
> [test]
> version: 1.19.3-1
> ...

Thanks for pointing this out.  This is due to a 'bug', which caused 
incorrect ordering of test versions lower than curr.

That should be fixed now, but please let me know if you notice any other 
problems.

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