Keeping an older version of a package in the repos

[Marco Atzeri]

On 19.01.2021 19:11, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> 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
> 


I was referring to collision of file names

$ cygcheck -l python38-wx |grep bin
/usr/bin/helpviewer-py38
/usr/bin/img2png-py38
/usr/bin/img2py-py38
/usr/bin/img2xpm-py38
/usr/bin/pycrust-py38
/usr/bin/pyshell-py38
/usr/bin/pyslices-py38
/usr/bin/pyslicesshell-py38
/usr/bin/pywxrc-py38
/usr/bin/wxdemo-py38
/usr/bin/wxdocs-py38
/usr/bin/wxget-py38