Problem with newlib-man

[Brian Gallew]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 7 May 2003, Brian Gallew wrote:
>>As you can see, after bunzip2-ing, the tarfile which should
>>theoretically contain *something* is empty.   So are the ones I
>>downloaded from a number of other sites.
> 
> Please read the setup.hint for that package. ;-)

2 > more setup.hint
sdesc: "OBSOLETE: Man pages for some system functions"
category: Doc
requires: cygwin-doc

Right.  That makes sense.  But ...

@ newlib-man
sdesc: "Man pages for some system functions"
category: Doc
requires: cygwin-doc
version: 20020801
install: release/newlib-man/newlib-man-20020801.tar.bz2 14 
4059d198768f9f8dc9372
dc1c54bc3c3
[prev]
version: 20001118-1
install: release/newlib-man/newlib-man-20001118-1.tar.bz2 56087 
26eeb3aac46fec78
bc8fbffb315ba527

This is from the setup.ini.  So, for some reason, the "OBSOLETE:" bit 
isn't shining thru, which may lead people (like me) to the unreasonable 
expectation that this packages is, in fact, not obsolete at all. 
Especially since extra measures have to be taken to get to the 
setup.hint file, while setup.ini is what everyone in the world sees by 
default.