On 5/13/2017 7:12 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
On 12/05/2017 22:02, Ken Brown wrote:
I have a package that is going to become obsolete, but its contents will
be distributed among several other packages. So I can't handle this by
defining OBSOLETES in any one .cygport file. Is there a standard way to
deal with this using cygport, or should I just create the necessary
tarballs and .hint file manually?
I think the best way to do that is to bump your package revision, change
it's category to _obsolete, make it's contents empty, and make it depend
on the packages which are replacing it.
Yes, that was my first thought. But there's no longer a source file for
the obsolete package[1], and cygport complains that SRC_URI must be
defined. Maybe cygport should be patched to allow an empty SRC_URI when
the category is _obsolete. Or do you see another way around this?