Re: setup 2.886 release candidate - please test

[Jon Turney <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>]

On 02/02/2018 19:38, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Jon Turney writes:
> > > Do you have an idea yet why the last package gets orphaned (or did, if
> >
> > 'Yet'?  This is the first time I've heard of this!
>
> Right you are.  I thought I had mentioned it already, but forgot since I
> can't post from work.
>
> > Is this regression?
>
> Yes.
>
> > > it's already fixed)?  I will need to remove my workaround of placing an
> > > empty dummy at the end to try.
> >
> > I guess you are saying that the last package listed in setup.ini
> > appears as orphaned, when you have a re-written setup.ini which only
> > contains one version per package?
>
> I've tested that again today.  The last package gets orphaned if there
> is only a current section.  I believe that the last section is also not
> processed, so in the standard Cygwin installation you'd not be able to
> see the previous version of _update-info-dir.
>
> > Which I can easily believe happens, due to the rather weird way that
> > the data from a parser reduction is transferred into the package
> > database.

Can you test the attached patch, please?

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