Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2001/12/15/12:48:54
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 01:35:31AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>
>> Sort of. The problem though is that I'm nearing the completion of some
>> pretty extensive changes to the GUI code, so if there's problems with
>> that in the cvs stuff I might not even know about it. I did however
>> run across a problem in the INI-parsing code that does prevent it from
>> working. The problem is with entries in setup.ini that look like this:
>>
>> @ jbigkit
>> sdesc: "Lossless image compression library"
>> ldesc: "JBIG is a highly effective lossless compression
>> algorithm for bi-level images (one bit per pixel), which
>> is particularly suitable for document pages."
>> category: Graphics Libs
>> requires: cygwin
>>
>> i.e., that have no "version:" lines in them (what is such an entry
>> supposed to mean, or is this actually a upset bug?).
>
>No, it's a "too aggreesive cleanup" bug. Chris deleted the jbigkit packages
>from sourceware, and I haven't had a chance to re-upload them yet. since
>the packages aren't there, upset can't figure out what version numbers to
>use.
So, the solution to that problem is to send email that says "Chris, you screwed
up. Can you restore the package you deleted?"
>You're not ever supposed to have a setup.hint without any packages.
Not true.
cgf
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