Apparent bug in either (1) Cygwin default Package-list or (2) Package "bzr" dependency-list

[Jon Turney]

On 21/06/2020 17:15, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2020-06-20 08:41, Jon Turney wrote:
>> On 19/06/2020 07:55, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> This analysis is not complete or correct because it doesn't take 'obsoletes:'
>> into account:
>> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=cygwin-apps/calm.git;a=commitdiff;h=d75abceedb46749982669236c5c102796a1fbfb1;hp=f92ad1d5c292ed54e7a62f5c52280efab8267f37
>> It does seem that things aren't working as intended, though.
> 
> So does that obsoletes: mean something different than category: _obsoletes,
> which I view as a (Debian-like) virtual package declaration?

There's no need to guess, when the source code is available to inspect.

All the '_obsolete' category (note no 's') does is cause packages to get 
hidden by the 'Hide obsolete packages' filter in setup (which is on by 
default).

So yes, these are completely different things.

> Are obsoletes and pre-depends documented anywhere else (and any other new
> keywords)?

https://cygwin.com/packaging-hint-files.html
https://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/setup.ini.html