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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 13:39:49 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?
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On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 01:22:52PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:39:50AM -0700, Warren Young wrote:
>>On 8/9/2013 11:17, Steven Penny wrote:
>>> Because of this dependency line
>>>
>>> man
>>>   groff
>>>    perl
>>
>>The groff package includes several helper programs written in Perl: 
>>afmtodit, groffer, and grog.
>>
>>Red Hat and Mandriva split these utilities out into a separate 
>>package[*] but that would be something you'd have to prevail on cgf to 
>>change.
>
>Actually, I didn't upload the 64-bit groff.  This is one of the reasons
>why I had reservations about people other than the package maintainers
>uploading packages.  The end result is that I'm forced to deal with
>someone else's decision.  This has been the case for a few of my
>packages, uploaded during the 64-bit transition.  If I had created the
>package I might have paused at the perl dependency since clearly groff
>is part of base.
>
>In retrospect, it would have potentially made sense to use the same
>versions and packaging for the 64-bit as for the 32-bit.  That might
>have minimized this type of problem.

I forgot to add: Thanks for clarifying (reiterating?) that this is my
problem to solve.  I'll try to roll out a new version of groff in the
next few days and use the packaging that Warren kindly pointed to.

cgf

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