Package 'unitS' requires python39 & requests

Tue Feb 18 14:37:54 GMT 2025

On 18/02/2025 11:48, Sam Edge via Cygwin wrote:
> On 18/02/2025 00:17, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
>> On 2025年02月17日 16:34, Sam Edge via Cygwin wrote:
>>> On 17/02/2025 23:21, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
>>>> On 2025年02月17日 07:48, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote:
>>>>> On 17/02/2025 15:31, Sam Edge via Cygwin wrote:
>>>>>> On 17/02/2025 11:29, Federico Kircheis via Cygwin wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> I mentioned this a while ago but the 'units' package also has a 
>>>>>> dependency on 'python39' and 'python39-requests'. This is purely 
>>>>>> because of the currency updater script (/usr/bin/unit_cur) I believe.

>> Splitting the updater script out and have it depend upon units, python3 
> & requests sounds like a sensible approach although I don't know how 
> much extra fiddling that would require when releasing upstream changes 
> next time around. (Sorry, I've not found the time to grok cygport yet. 
> So many tools, so little time! ;-))
>
splitting is a minor operation in this case as
there is only one file that is pulling python
$ file /usr/bin/units_cur
/usr/bin/units_cur: Python script, Unicode text, UTF-8 text executable
so if this file is moved to a new binary package (e.g units-tool)
that package will require units and python, while the remaining package
will require the usual stuff
 $ cyg-dependency.sh /usr/bin/units.exe
/usr/bin/cygwin1.dll => cygwin-3.5.7-1
/usr/bin/cygreadline7.dll => libreadline7-8.2-2
KERNEL32.dll => Windows System
Regards
Marco