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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: suite3270-3.3.4p7-1, c3270-3.3.4p7-1, pr3287-3.3.4p7-1, s3270-3.3.4p7-1, tcl3270-3.3.4p7-1, x3270-3.3.4p7-1


On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Peter A. Castro wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>
> > 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).
>
> Ah, I see now.  Yes, that does sound like a good idea.
>
> Eric, sorry I misunderstood what your were trying to say. :)
>
> Ok, I'll do that tonight and it should hit the mirrors there after.
> Umm... do I need to do another announcement for this?

Probably not.  Since the only changes are to the setup.hint files, you
won't even need to bump the Cygwin release number.  You might want to send
out a separate note saying that pr3270 was superseded by pr3287, though...
	Igor
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