On 10/12/2023 2:46 PM, Eric Hendrickson via Cygwin wrote:
And your point about the effort involved and no known bugs is well taken of course but Cygwin is still distributing EOL software. This is why I asked, would it make sense to just not release new non emergency versions of Cygwin with EOL packages, until that can be remedied.
Cygwin "releases" are just releases of the compatibility library, similar to the kernel in a Linux distribution. Cygwin doesn't have the equivalent of Debian releases, where all packages are tested for compatibility and released as a unit.
For that reason, it doesn't make sense to pause Cygwin "releases" just because some of the packages are out-of-date, since Cygwin is itself just another one of these packages.
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