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Re: Obsoletion procedures?


Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:

The precedent seems to be to keep them indefinitely, unless they are
affected by security issues or are otherwise hopelessly broken.

Yep. Just dump 'em over in _obsolete, make a copy of <PKG>-x.y.z-r-src.tar.bz2 named lib<PKG>N-x.y.z-r-src.tar.bz2, remove the external-src: line in the lib's setup.hint, and let it rot.


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Chuck


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