GNOME category exists now?

Reini Urban rurban@x-ray.at
Wed Oct 27 23:21:00 GMT 2004


Christopher Faylor schrieb:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:38:18PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
>>Christopher Faylor schrieb:
 >>>
>>>The. Cygwin packages are based on Debian categories.
>>
>>I'll patch upset to ignore packages completely with Categories not in 
>>Debian. With a fatal, not just a warning. Ok?
> 
> No.  It is not worth the effort.  I don't want to add a dependency
> on me to remember to update upset whenever there is an addition to
> the Category.
> 
> upset is intended to be used to create a setup.ini from the setup.hint
> files on sourceware.org.  The fact that it is retrievable via CVS is a
> side-effect of the fact that that's how most of the admin tools on
> sourceware.org are managed.
> 
> I'm not interested in turning it into a general purpose tool and I'm not
> interested in bug reports, patches, augmentations, etc.
> 
> A simple "package lint" tool would be easily doable and it would not
> require all of the extra stuff that upset does.  Someone should write
> one of those.
> 
> Some of the above is also.  A recording.

Ok. So I will not bug you any further with updates, but keep my forked 
version at my site. I find it useful to die on invalid categories.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/



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