Re: calm: cygwin package report for Brian Inglis

On 2026-04-26 23:23, [email protected] wrote:
> INFO: package 'tzdata': errors in license expression: ['Unknown license key(s): LicenseRef-IANA-TZ-Public-Domain']
> ERROR: package 'man-pages-linux' has non-existent keep: version '6.12-2'
> ERROR: package 'man-pages-linux' has non-existent keep: version '6.6-1'
> ERROR: package 'man-pages-linux' has non-existent keep: version '6.1-1'
> ERROR: package 'man-pages-linux' has non-existent keep: version '5.15-1'
> ERROR: package 'man-pages-linux' has non-existent keep: version '5.10-1'
> ERROR: package 'man-pages-linux-src' has non-existent keep: version '6.12-2'
> ERROR: package 'man-pages-linux-src' has non-existent keep: version '6.6-1'
> ERROR: package 'man-pages-linux-src' has non-existent keep: version '6.1-1'
> ERROR: package 'man-pages-linux-src' has non-existent keep: version '5.15-1'
> ERROR: package 'man-pages-linux-src' has non-existent keep: version '5.10-1'
> INFO: adding 3 package(s)
> INFO: move from Brian Inglis's upload area to release area:
> INFO: deploying noarch/release/tzdata/tzdata-2026b-1-noarch.hint
> INFO: deploying noarch/release/tzdata/tzdata-2026b-1-noarch.tar.xz
> INFO: deploying noarch/release/tzdata/tzdata-2026b-1-src.hint
> INFO: deploying noarch/release/tzdata/tzdata-2026b-1-src.tar.xz
> INFO: deploying noarch/release/tzdata/tzdata-posix/tzdata-posix-2026b-1-noarch.hint
> INFO: deploying noarch/release/tzdata/tzdata-posix/tzdata-posix-2026b-1-noarch.tar.xz
> INFO: deploying noarch/release/tzdata/tzdata-right/tzdata-right-2026b-1-noarch.hint
> INFO: deploying noarch/release/tzdata/tzdata-right/tzdata-right-2026b-1-noarch.tar.xz
> INFO: vaulting 3 old package(s)
> INFO: move from release area to vault:
> INFO: vaulting noarch/release/tzdata/tzdata-2025b-2-noarch.hint
> INFO: vaulting noarch/release/tzdata/tzdata-2025b-2-noarch.tar.xz
> INFO: vaulting noarch/release/tzdata/tzdata-2025b-2-src.hint
> INFO: vaulting noarch/release/tzdata/tzdata-2025b-2-src.tar.xz
> INFO: vaulting noarch/release/tzdata/tzdata-posix/tzdata-posix-2025b-2-noarch.hint
> INFO: vaulting noarch/release/tzdata/tzdata-posix/tzdata-posix-2025b-2-noarch.tar.xz
> INFO: vaulting noarch/release/tzdata/tzdata-right/tzdata-right-2025b-2-noarch.hint
> INFO: vaulting noarch/release/tzdata/tzdata-right/tzdata-right-2025b-2-noarch.tar.xz
> SUMMARY: 21 INFO(s), 10 ERROR(s)

Hi folks/Jon,

Added man-pages-linux override.hint keeps intending to ensure that all current 
and any LTS release manpages are retained until their extended support expires.
But calm or the setup infrastructure objects to references to previously vaulted 
releases, every time I upload or deploy *any* of my packages.

So I ask, is it easy enough for someone with access to move old releases from 
the vault back into the release area, to be worth while doing so?

Or should I upload another override.hint with the keeps reduced to the current 
release only, extending that only as I upload/deploy packages for future LTS 
releases?

And could we perhaps change calm/infrastructure to only check and complain about 
a package override.hint when a release of that package is uploaded?

I am managing the override.hint in CYGWIN_FILES and manually copying it from $C 
to .../inst/$PN/ $distdir/$PN/, before upload.
I checked whether I could perhaps set PKG_HINTS=override but thought that might 
suppress auto-generation of $PF-$ARCH.hint?

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter  not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retrancher  but when there is no more to cut
                                 -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry