calm: vaulting ancient unifont

[Brian Inglis]

On 2024-05-06 09:27, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 04/05/2024 20:21, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> Thanks Jon? - yay!
> 
> Right, I deployed some changes to calm which will gradually let us get rid of 
> the "old-style" of obsoletion (where, as here, the old name of a package (i.e. 
> font-unifont-misc, font-unifont-ttf) continues to exist with a category of 
> _obsolete and requires: its replacement)
> 
> (cygport stopped generating these some time ago (0.34.1, 2022), but they've been 
> lingering around indefinitely, because in some cases it's only the existence of 
> these packages which currently records the fact of the obsoletion)
> 
> 
> Since someone's bound to get the wrong end of the stick: This doesn't mean 
> package maintainers should change anything.
> 
> And just to reiterate: As a principle, every version of a package must contain 
> complete instructions for upgrading to it. So, it is almost never correct to go 
> "I'll remove these OBSOLETE instruction after one package release with them, 
> since they've already happened everywhere..."
> 
>> On 2024-05-04 09:48, cygwin-no-reply-rDBXBDvO6BXQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org 
>> wrote:
>>> INFO: vaulting x86_64/release/unifont/unifont-8.0.01-1-src.hint
>>> INFO: vaulting x86_64/release/unifont/unifont-8.0.01-1-src.tar.xz
>>> INFO: vaulting 
>>> x86_64/release/unifont/font-unifont-misc/font-unifont-misc-8.0.01-1.hint
>>> INFO: vaulting 
>>> x86_64/release/unifont/font-unifont-misc/font-unifont-misc-8.0.01-1.tar.xz
>>> INFO: vaulting 
>>> x86_64/release/unifont/font-unifont-ttf/font-unifont-ttf-8.0.01-1.hint
>>> INFO: vaulting 
>>> x86_64/release/unifont/font-unifont-ttf/font-unifont-ttf-8.0.01-1.tar.xz
>>> INFO: vaulting 
>>> x86_64/release/unifont/unifont-debuginfo/unifont-debuginfo-8.0.01-1.hint
>>> INFO: vaulting 
>>> x86_64/release/unifont/unifont-debuginfo/unifont-debuginfo-8.0.01-1.tar.xz
>>> SUMMARY: 8 INFO(s)
> 
> Anyhow, double checking that the "right thing" happened here, I notice that 
> 'unifont' obsoletes 'unifont-debuginfo', which seems a bit weird, especially 
> since it contains the expected .dbg files etc.
> 
> Brian,
> 
> Are you sure that's right?

It appears not!
My reasoning was that as unifont-viewer was split out from unifont-fonts, 
unifont-viewer-debuginfo would be generated, but it appears that is not how that 
works.
Is there any way to make that work, or should I just drop it in the next 
release, or a new -RELEASE?

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter  not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer     but when there is no more to cut
                                 -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry