On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Charles Wilson on 2/23/2008 9:08 AM: > | The mktemp package's setup.hint now specifies the "_obsolete" category. > | The package directory has been moved from release/mktemp/ to > | release/_obsolete/mktemp. > | > | What's to do? > | > | I thought about creating a new, empty package with an updated version > | number -- but it's too late now. Once somebody has updated to the new > | coreutils, if they update using my new empty mktemp, then coreutils' > | mktemp.exe will be deleted. That's no good. > > I can bump the version number of coreutils if you want to bump the version > number of mktemp. But I think we're okay leaving things as they are for > now - no one has complained.
They won't complain until they try to uninstall mktemp and find their coreutils incomplete... That wouldn't be a very common situation (so no rush), but it would be nice to do what you propose at some point. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary. Go and study it." -- Rabbi Hillel