Fwd: calm: cygwin package report for Ken Brown

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Mon Feb 19 19:22:38 GMT 2024


On 19/02/2024 18:59, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 3/20/2023 7:17 PM, Jon Turney wrote:
>> On 20/03/2023 22:17, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> It looks like my plan for having scallywag deploy all the TeX Live 
>>> packages won't work (see below).  calm would have to be more 
>>> permissive and allow deploying a package that requires something that 
>>> will be provided by a future package.
>>>
>>> In this case, I made asymptote require tl_2023, which will be 
>>> provided by the next texlive release.  But I don't want to deploy the 
>>> latter until all the other packages for TeX Live 2023 have been 
>>> deployed.
>>>
>>> Unless this is easy to fix, I'll just forget about using scallywag 
>>> and go back to my old method of uploading everything manually.
>>
>> This is trivially fixable.
>>
>> calm already has a list of 'provides which don't exist (yet)', so I 
>> think I just need to add tl_2023 and tl_basic_2023 to that list
>>
>> Future work: make these regexes so we don't have same problem again in 
>> a years time.
> 
> Jon,
> 
> In preparation for TeX Live 2024, please add tl_2024 and tl_basic_2024 
> to the list of provides which don't exist yet (unless you've already 
> done the regex future work).

These are controlled by regex now, so these should already be permitted, 
and I don't need to do anything (yay!):

     'tl_\d+'
     'tl_basic_\d+'




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