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On Dec 17 18:01, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > Oh, and there's something else very important. The new technique > > requires the users to update setup.exe, otherwise they will get > > problems. We can't do much for people ignoring the "this setup.ini has > > been created by a newer setup version" message in setup itself, but we > > should at least announce the new setup version. > > > > Achim, either you just write the complete announcement for setup from > > scratch, or you give me a piece of text to include into the announcement > > and I write it. Whatever you prefer. The important thing here is to > > urge people to upgrade. > > I'll look into that > > > Given that many of us are not available the next 2 or 3 weeks (e.g., me), > > I'm wondering if we should let the new setup version sink in during that > > time, and upgrade the packages using the new feature (_autorebase, TeX > > Live) only in the new year, after the 6th of January when all of us will > > be back. > > Good idea. > > In fact if we do that, I'd like to require either new releases for the > packages using /etc/rebase/dynpath.d or alternatively that they get an > additional package that drops just this file (if a full release _now_ > would be too much work) and the requisite change to setup.hint to have a > dependency added so that this new package gets pulled in. That should be fine, given the rather short list of affected maintainers: octave Marco Atzeri perl Reini Urban/Achim Gratz ?!? php Yaakov Selkowitz python Jason Tishler/Yaakov Selkowitz R Marco Atzeri ruby Yaakov Selkowitz As for perl, are you still with us Reini? As for python, Jason, you're still around? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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