setup.hint coreutils editing (was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-5.2.1-3)

Brian Dessent brian@dessent.net
Thu Dec 23 21:48:00 GMT 2004


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> I have uploaded coreutils-5.2.1-3.
> 
> This package superseeds the packages fileutils, sh-utils and textutils.

Thanks Corinna.

Do you think we should edit the setup.hints of packages that call for
one or more of the old packages to now require coreutils directly?  I
realize the dummy packages in ZZZRemovedPackages already accomplish this
indirectly at the moment... but surely one day we would be better off
with no reference to old packages, no?

>From looking at setup.ini it appears that the following packages
reference in their Requires: line one or more of the three now obsolete
packages:

X-start-menu-icons
base-files
chere
cvs
cygwin-doc
exim
fontconfig
keychain
lftp
lilypond
make
man
ncftp
openssh
rebase
rpm
tetex-bin

Brian



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