On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 11/14/2014 4:07 PM, cyg Simple wrote: >> >> Package maintainers, >> >> I found that /x86_64/release/popt/libpopt0/libpopt0-1.16-1.tar.xz is >> an empty archive file. Fortunately there is a .bz2 archive that >> contains the library. >> >> The setup.hint for the libpopt0 library states it is obsolete but >> cygutils still requires it making the obsolete a lie. > > > not exactly, as reported in the setup.ini > > @ libpopt0 > sdesc: "Obsolete libpopt library" > category: _obsolete > requires: popt > > so any package requiring libpopt0 will install popt > where currently the lib resides > > $ cygcheck -l popt > /usr/bin/cygpopt-0.dll > /usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo > /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo > .. >
Thanks for the explanation. I see that the .bz2 file has been removed leaving the empty .xz file. > Regards > Marco > > PS: I presume "mistake" is a better word than "lie" in this context No, if packages still "require" another package, stating that the other package is "obsolete" is a lie. It would be "deprecated" and not "obsolete". Obsolete implies not used. -- cyg Simple
