Keeping an older version of a package in the repos

Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty hamishmb@live.co.uk
Tue Jan 19 18:11:01 GMT 2021


On 18/01/2021 18:39, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 18.01.2021 18:57, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In the (hopefully!) near future I plan to package python3-wx (aka
>> wxPython) version 4.1.1. This is a backwards-incompatible change with
>> wxPython 4.0.x, so I was wondering if there was a way to retain
>> python3-wx 4.0.x and its binary packages in the repos after I do this
>> update?
>>
>> Hamish
>>
>
> look at the several guile packages for ideas
>
> $ cygcheck -cd | grep "^guile"
> ...
> guile1.8                                1.8.8-3
> guile2.0                                2.0.14-3
> guile2.2                                2.2.7-1
> guile3.0                                3.0.5-1
>
>
> check how to guarantee that the names are different and they
> do not collide as content
>
> Does any package depends on python3X-wx ?
> I do not see a demanding problem:
>
> $ cygcheck-dep -S -q -n python36-wx
>  python36-wx: is needed for ( )
>
>
> Regards
> Marco

Yeah I guess I could name the new binary packages something like
python36-wx31 etc, but that might be a bit ugly. I'm not sure if Cygwin
has a convention for that.

I was more thinking about any 3rd party applications that may depend on
it, but perhaps that's not too much of a concern.

Hamish

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