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Re: Ready for test coreutils-5.2.0-1 [again]
- From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 11:52:16 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: Ready for test coreutils-5.2.0-1 [again]
--- Nicholas Wourms <nwourms@netscape.net> wrote:
> I have a suggestion for how to deal with the "old"
> fileutils/textutils/etc. Provide "empty" versions of the packages this
> replaces, bumping each by 1 revision.
Like Chris said, I did suggest this, but as Igor pointed out it's
not that easy with packages like cygutils that just "change" instead
of disappear--they need to rely on each other circularly so that you
don't get someone just upgrading coreutils and then uninstalling
an older version of cygutils and thus losing readlink.
> Finally, this is kinda picky, but why not use bzip2 instead of gzip for
> the manpages?
The same reason none of the other packages do. (Which I think is a combination
of very little difference in size, gzip in Base, and possible problems with
texinfo and other 3rd party man-reading tools interaction.)
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