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Re: Packages up for adoption


On Feb  6 09:49, Sam Robb wrote:
> All,
>
>   A few years and a few jobs back, I picked up maintenance of a couple of 
> cygwin packages related to embedded system development.  Things have 
> changed a lot in the past few years, and I find myself in the position of 
> not having a Windows system at home or at work that I can use for cygwin 
> development (nothing bad... just that my current workplace uses Macs, and 
> as my home Windows boxes have aged, they've been replaced by Macs and Linux 
> systems :-)

It's probbaly good for you, but I'm sorry to read that you're leaving us
nevertheless.  Thanks for maintaining these packages all the time.

>   So, I'm putting the following packages up for adoption or retirement.  
> They're kind of old and crufty - no significant updates in the past 3 years 
> - and so might require a little bit of attention to bring them up to date 
> with the current state of the cygwin world.  There are others that might 
> just be retired; it looks like util-linux, for example, now provides a more 
> up to date version of the cramfs utilities.
>
>   If you're interested in taking over as maintainer of any of these 
> packages, or think that any of them should be retired, please speak up.
>
>   * cramfs
>   * e2fsimage
>   * e2fsprogs
>   * mtd
>   * nfs-server
>   * sunrpc

AFAICS, util-linux depends on e2fsprogs but otherwise there are no
other dependencies except for nfs-server depending on sunrpc.  As for
cramfs and e2fsprogs I guess Yaakov would be an ideal candidate to
decide about the future of these packages.  


> -Samrobb

All the best for the future,
Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat


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