residual setup.hint

[Marco Atzeri]

On 04/04/2017 19:38, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 04/04/2017 14:28, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> Not sure if "calm" is excluding them, but I noticed for some
>> packages we have now an excess of "setup.hint" as all existing
>> revision have their own package-revison.hint
>
> These old setup.hint files should be benign, unless they are recording
> obsolete dependencies which aren't needed any more.

I assume there is already some case, but I will need to check
to show some evidence.

> [...]
>> Is a cleaning needed ?
>
> Eventually, yes.
>
> Unfortunately, a maintainer removing these files via '-setup.hint' is
> not permitted, as I haven't implemented it due to the complexity of
> determining if that is safe.
>
> I've noted that there needs to be a migration plan for this (See [1])
>
> I guess the first stage of which is to turn off uploads containing
> setup.hint (as generated by older versions of cygport), but I'm not sure
> we've reached that point in time, yet.
>
> [1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2016-09/msg00025.html
>

I assume we are all using latest cygport and uploading only
package-revison.hint

Regards
Marco