Re: [PATCH setup 0/2] Detect filename collisions between packages

2023-05-03 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps
On 2023-04-30 12:25, Jon Turney wrote: On 28/04/2023 06:51, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2023-04-27 10:11, Jon Turney wrote: [...] I think this functionality needs to exist in setup as well, though, as calm can't possibly have knowledge of packages you might be installing from 3rd party overlay

Re: how to contribute a noarch utility without porting Icon, Noweb, and Cygport

2023-05-03 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps
On 2023-05-03 15:06, metaed wrote: I want to contribute a Cygwin port of my utility program "dtt". It is an architecture-independent executable written in Perl 5 plus a man page. It comes with supplementary docs in /usr/share/doc, including the complete source. The only known dtt out there

Re: [Attn. MAINTAINERS] Heads up: Perl 5.36.1 is imminent

2023-05-03 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps
On 5/3/2023 8:19 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote: I wonder if those obsoleted packages are confusing setup.  In a new Cygwin installation, choosing only the base packages and cygport, setup wants to install perl-Test-Harness (and therefore perl 5.32). I just tried a second experiment

how to contribute a noarch utility without porting Icon, Noweb, and Cygport

2023-05-03 Thread metaed--- via Cygwin-apps
I want to contribute a Cygwin port of my utility program "dtt". It is an architecture-independent executable written in Perl 5 plus a man page. It comes with supplementary docs in /usr/share/doc, including the complete source. The package is built from source using the Noweb litprog tool, which

Re: [Attn. MAINTAINERS] Heads up: Perl 5.36.1 is imminent

2023-05-03 Thread Achim Gratz via Cygwin-apps
Achim Gratz via Cygwin-apps writes: > Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps writes: >> Could we work around the problem by removing the dependency of the >> obsolete packages on perl5_032? > > Please don't. I'll update automake soon. Wait… these packages are not supposed to be dependent on the perl5_0xy

Re: [Attn. MAINTAINERS] Heads up: Perl 5.36.1 is imminent

2023-05-03 Thread Achim Gratz via Cygwin-apps
Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps writes: > Just adding just perl 5.36 to base seems to work fine. > > Adding cygport, pulls in automake-{12,13,14}, which depend on > perl-Carp or perl-Test-Harness. I'm not sure why the solver then goes > on to choose those packages, rather than perl_base which obsoletes

Re: [Attn. MAINTAINERS] Heads up: Perl 5.36.1 is imminent

2023-05-03 Thread Achim Gratz via Cygwin-apps
Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps writes: > Could we work around the problem by removing the dependency of the > obsolete packages on perl5_032? Please don't. I'll update automake soon. Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Factory and User Sound Singles for

Re: [Attn. MAINTAINERS] Heads up: Perl 5.36.1 is imminent

2023-05-03 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps
On 5/3/2023 9:33 AM, Jon Turney wrote: On 03/05/2023 13:19, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote: I wonder if those obsoleted packages are confusing setup.  In a new Cygwin installation, choosing only the base packages and cygport, setup wants to install perl-Test-Harness (and therefore perl 5.32).

Re: [Attn. MAINTAINERS] Heads up: Perl 5.36.1 is imminent

2023-05-03 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
On 03/05/2023 13:19, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote: On 5/2/2023 4:45 PM, Achim Gratz via Cygwin-apps wrote: Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps writes: There's an updated report available [1], which should list the affected packages. [1] https://cygwin.com/packages/reports/perl_rebuilds.html

Re: [Attn. MAINTAINERS] Heads up: Perl 5.36.1 is imminent

2023-05-03 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps
On 5/2/2023 4:45 PM, Achim Gratz via Cygwin-apps wrote: Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps writes: There's an updated report available [1], which should list the affected packages. [1] https://cygwin.com/packages/reports/perl_rebuilds.html Thanks. The newly obsolated packages (due to core now