On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Peter A. Castro wrote:
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Eric Blake wrote:
NOTE: The previous release of suite3270 for Cygwin incorrectly named
the pr3287 package as 'pr3270'. This release corrects the package
name. The previous, incorrectly, named package will remain until
that release (3.2.20) is removed from the distribution sometime in
the future.
For the package rename to work, you should provide an empty tarball
named suite3270/pr3270/pr3270-3.3.4p7-1.tar.bz2, then update that
setup.hint to require: the pr3287 package and mark suite3270 in the
_obsolete category. Otherwise, people might be stuck with the old
pr3270 package, possible with version mismatch problems, because
setup.exe didn't auto-update to pull in the new package name.
No, this won't work. There's only one setup.hint per package and it's
not versionable (at least not that I can find). Besides, suite3270 is a
base package and the other packages (eg: c3270, pr3287, etc) require
*it* and not the other way around. I went a few rounds with Chris and
Corinna on package organization in the beginning for these and it was
decided that the current organization is the best, and I'm not changing
it.
I think Eric misread your message as having *all* the names changed to
*3287 from *3270. His point is still valid, though -- since this is a
rename, and (I assume) the content overlaps, the pr3270 package (which has
a separate setup.hint) should be marked _obsolete and should require: the
pr3287 package (to allow seamless updates for people who used to have
pr3270 installed).
At present, there are two packages in the list: pr3270 and pr3287.
Eventually pr3270 will be obsoleted and removed and anyone who needs the
latest version will simply have to pick it up by the correct name.
It's not that big a deal. Heck, in the world of Linux packages it seems
most packages of a given distribution change names each major release
(well, at least that's how it appears to me :)
The problem is that, unless you pr3270 is obsoleted, its content would
clash with pr3287. When people later uninstall the old pr3270 package,
the files that belong to pr3287 will be removed, so pr3287 will have to be
reinstalled.
And, honestly, pr3287 is a lesser know/used package. Anyone who really
needs it will know to look for the correct name in the future.
Why not just let setup do it automatically? That way you prevent the
obvious issues people (even those few that use the package) will
undoubtedly have on an upgrade.