On 01/02/2026 14:20, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
On 24/01/2026 20:44, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
On 2026-01-24 11:10, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
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it looks fine for me.
Only question about Alphabetic order, which one ?
Today it seems an almost ASCII order where Uppercase and Lowercase
are all considered Uppercase.
If I do a "sort" (LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8) and compare
@@@ -4136,8 +4137,8 @@
xtrans @xorg
xvidcore Takashi Yano
xwd @xorg
-xwin-xdg-menu Jon Turney
xwininfo @xorg
+xwin-xdg-menu Jon Turney
xwud @xorg
xxdiff ORPHANED (Yaakov
Selkowitz)
xxhash Marco Atzeri
the position of "-" and "_" seems different depending on the Local used
That seems to be similar to the order in setup.ini - strcasecmp or
rpmvercmp?
Yes, this seems to be an attempt at the same ordering as used in
setup.ini. [1]
[1] https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-apps/calm/tree/calm/package.py#n658
I guess ignoring case is maybe kind of helpful, so you don't have to
remember the correct casing to locate an entry,
But yeah, the point that if I'm going to ask people to keep the list
sorted, what the correct ordering is exactly should be well-defined, is
excellently made :)
I've put an initial attempt at a hook in place, which does:
git show $newrev:cygwin-pkg-maint | sed '/^[@#]/d' | LC_ALL=C sort -f
-k1 -c || exit 1
... that is:
discard all lines starting with @ or #
check that the file is sorted on the first whitespace-delimited field,
case-folded.
... which seems to be something close to what we currently have.
Please let me know if there are any problems with that.
