Apparent bug in either (1) Cygwin default Package-list or (2) Package "bzr" dependency-list

[marco atzeri]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 8:56 AM Brian Inglis wrote:
>
> On 2020-06-18 21:33, My Name via Cygwin wrote:
> > I found an apparent dependency problem in Cygwin, and I'm not enough of a
> > Cygwin expert to know whether the bug is in Cygwin or Bazaar (Package
> > "bzr"); but if I had to guess, I'd guess it's in Cygwin, and I've already
> > reported the issue to the Bazaar forum.
> >
> > In summary, after I installed Cygwin and Cygwin-Package "bzr", bzr failed
> > as it attempted to execute "python27". A detailed description of the issue,
> > including input and output from several tests I ran, and including the
> > solution posted by someone else (solution = install Cygwin-Package
> > "python27") is here, https://answers.launchpad.net/bzr/+question/691381,
> > and it's rather concise so I'll end here and refer you to that thread.
> >
> > Per the directions here, https://cygwin.com/problems.html, I'm
> > email-attaching the output from "cygcheck -s -v -r".
>
> Looks like cygport, calm, and setup disagree about install dependencies; from
> setup.ini:
>
> bzr
> requires: python
> depends2: python
>
> python
> requires: python2
> depends2:
>
> python2
> requires: python27
> depends2:
>
> so although python requires python2, and python2 requires python27, the (newer)
> depends2 entries are not the same and are empty, so setup ignores requires and
> does not install the dependency.
>
> In these cases, either depends2 should be the same as requires, or depends2
> should be omitted, and setup should install requires.
>

it seems a glitch of the last packing of python2.
I will review the dependency and re upload them in the weeked

Regards
Marco