[PATCH setup 00/11] Improve handling of specifying an obsolete package to be installed on the command line

[Ken Brown]

On 12/3/2019 3:44 PM, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 01/12/2019 19:31, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 8/1/2019 12:05 PM, Jon Turney wrote:
>>> e.g. setup -q -g -P python3-lxml (which used to do something useful)
>>> currently gets you an (empty) python3-lxml package, which will be replaced
>>> by python36-lxml (which obsoletes it) on the next setup run. After this
>>> change, python36-lxml is installed instead.
>>>
>>> See also the dicusssion at
>>> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2017-10/msg00092.html et seq. (where I
>>> come to the (incorrect) conclusion that since we don't need this for
>>> interactive use, it's not needed)
>>>
> [...]
>>
>> Since you don't seem to have gotten any feedback on this patch series, I just
>> want to let you know that I've been running setup.exe with these patches for a
>> couple months, and I haven't seen any regressions.  (But I haven't done any
>> systematic testing or review.)
> 
> Thanks very much for giving these a try.
> 
> I was recently reminded of these patches and thinking of doing a setup release 
> to include them.  Are there any other outstanding patches you are aware of?

None that I know of.

Ken