replacing a previous package verson

[Jon Turney]

On 11/04/2022 14:45, Andrew Schulman via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> After all this time I feel that I should know the answer to this, but here
>> goes.
>>
>> I have fish-3.4.1-1, a bugfix release. I want it to replace fish-3.4.0-1,
>> leaving fish-3.3.1-1 as the previous release.
>>
>> What's the best way to do this? Should I create override.hint, with
>>
>> keep: 3.3.1-1
>> replace-versions: 3.4.0-1
>>
>> ? This seems as though it might be right, but one question I have is, will
>> override.hint persist in future releases unless I replace it?
> 
> Or, should I just set
> 
> prev: 3.3.1-1
> 
> in fish.cygport, and let cygport and calm handle it from there?

The explicit 'prev/test/curr: <version>' lines which could appear in 
setup.hint aren't supported anymore (see [1]), since there are now 
different, hopefully better and less ambiguous ways of conveying that 
information.

[1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2020-March/039948.html