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Re: package cygwin-d-... case sensitivity problems --
On 2019-06-18 11:46, Townsend, Paul wrote:
> The cygwin-doc-... package has several problems in at least the
> /usr/share/man/man3 directory where multiple file names differ only in case,
> i.e., the tar file contains, in this order,
> usr/share/man/man3/jN.3.gz
> usr/share/man/man3/jn.3.gz
> The jN.3.gz file contains the roff text and the jn.3.gz file contains a roff
> .so directive pointing at jN.3. The file that ends up in man3 is jn.3.gz
> and jN.3.gz disappears.
> The simplest solution would be to just remove jn.3.gz and similar .so files
> from the tarball. This would at least allow the roff text files to exist.
> FMI - where was the tarball created? It certainly was not on a computer
> with Windows and case insensitivity.
A lot of package maintainers work on Linux and test in Windows VMs.
These conflicts should be picked up by the setup program tar extract.
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