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List:       cygwin-apps
Subject:    Re: calm: ncurses untest/vault previous version
From:       Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps <cygwin-apps () cygwin ! com>
Date:       2024-05-13 20:18:05
Message-ID: df0f884c-da33-4371-8fa8-4cc2cc4e62be () dronecode ! org ! uk
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On 13/05/2024 17:06, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 2024-05-13 09:32, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> On 13/05/2024 06:25, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> Looks like after untest ncurses-6.5+20240427-1 calm decided the
>>> previous version in the recommended format 6.4+20240330-1 was older
>>> than prev:
>>>
>>> 6.4-20231230
>>
>> So, this would be a bug, if that's actually what happened, because
>> 6.4+20240330 is definitely greater than 6.4 (under the "if all 
>> comparison chunks are equal, the string with any suffix remaining is 
>> the greater" clause of the comparison rule).
>>
>> What actually seems to have happened is that 6.4+20240330 was still
>> marked as 'test', and so removed by the "packages labelled test: are
>> expired when a superseding non-test version exists" logic.
> 
> Thanks Jon,
> 
> Missed that focusing on the versions not the labels in setup.ini.
> 
>> (Yeah, calm should probably be a bit more verbose about the reasons why
>> it's vaulting things in the report)
>>
>>> I can vault the old versions but could someone please unvault 
>>> 6.4+20240330-1?
>>
>> Sure, I'll do that.
>>
>> Do you want me to remove the test label from 6.4+20240330, or turn on
>> keep-superseded-test for this package?
> 
> Sorry, I should have noticed and untest-ed that immediately before 6.5!
> Please remove test label to unvault as "prev" not test.
> I've been running with it since released as test, until 6.5, and it is 
> the final 6.4 we made available, in case anyone has issues with 6.5.

OK. Done.

6.4-20231230 was vaulted to stay under the count of kept versions.

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