On 03/01/2021 15:57, Achim Gratz wrote:
Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps writes:
We will also need to modify cygport to stop automatically add
OBSOLETES as most of this packages never existed
I think the right thing to do is to stop having actual packages for
OBSOLETES and just emit the obsoltes: hint instead.
Yeah, this change to cygport should be made and we can turn off support
for setup versions which don't understand the obsoletes: hint.
an overall cleaning of obsoletes package may be useful in the
near future. I need to work on it.