Apparent bug in either (1) Cygwin default Package-list or (2) Package "bzr" dependency-list
Marco Atzeri
marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Sat Jun 20 14:44:56 GMT 2020
On 20.06.2020 16:41, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 19/06/2020 07:55, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>
>> Looks like cygport, calm, and setup disagree about install
>> dependencies; from
>> setup.ini:
>>
>> bzr
>> requires: python
>> depends2: python
>>
>> python
>> requires: python2
>> depends2:
>>
>> python2
>> requires: python27
>> depends2:
>>
>> so although python requires python2, and python2 requires python27,
>> the (newer)
>> depends2 entries are not the same and are empty, so setup ignores
>> requires and
>> does not install the dependency.
>>
>> In these cases, either depends2 should be the same as requires, or
>> depends2
>> should be omitted, and setup should install requires.
>
> This analysis is not complete or correct because it doesn't take
> 'obsoletes:' into account. (See [1] for the technical details)
>
> It does seem that things aren't working as intended, though.
>
> [1]
> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=cygwin-apps/calm.git;a=commitdiff;h=d75abceedb46749982669236c5c102796a1fbfb1;hp=f92ad1d5c292ed54e7a62f5c52280efab8267f37
>
> --
I think I solved the issue re-uploading all the python2 hints
for both arch.
Regards
Marco
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