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Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] ARCH=noarch uploads with cygport 0.22.0
- From: "Dr. Volker Zell" <dr dot volker dot zell at oracle dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 21:48:54 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] ARCH=noarch uploads with cygport 0.22.0
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- References: <9de6f042-3510-ef4c-9c2d-90f354244691 at cygwin dot com> <vriv8txpnlxd dot fsf at VZELL-LAP dot de dot oracle dot com>
>>>>> Volker Zell writes:
>>>>> Yaakov Selkowitz writes:
>> Package Maintainers,
>> cygport 0.22.0 is on its way to the mirrors. With this release, and thanks to
>> Jon Turney's continuing work on calm (the replacement for upset which generates
>> setup.ini), packages marked ARCH=noarch will be uploaded once under the
>> /noarch/release hierarchy instead of into each of /x86/release and
>> /x86_64/release. This change is intended to save disk space and bandwidth for
>> both sourceware and our mirrors.
>> A package should be marked ARCH=noarch IF AND ONLY IF *all* subpackages thereof
>> do not contain anything compiled with the *native* gcc, and the file contents
>> are (or can be) 100% identical for x86 and x86_64. Examples include, but are not
>> limited to, packages which contain only:
> Please move mine:
> ghostscript-fonts-other
> ghostscript-fonts-std
> initscripts
> texi2html
Also move
aspell-pl
aspell-sv
aspell-de
aspell-en
By the way Yaakov I saw that you have taken a couple of other aspell dicts...
if you like I can hand over mine.
Ciao
Volker