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Re: Although advertised on a different Cygwin mailing list ...
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at NexGo dot DE>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 11:43:11 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: Although advertised on a different Cygwin mailing list ...
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Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> It has the unfortunate side-effect that downgrading packages is not
> possible anymore, and worse, the package could be silently removed.
> That's a teeny little bit more exciting action than I anticipated with
> my change.
With your second patch the orphan removal works again (correctyl as far as I
could test it). Sorry, can't help with the downgrade scenario, I don't have
any "prev" packages in my setup.ini and would need to set up a test
installation.
Regards,
Achim.
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