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Re: Yaakov, package maintainership details
- From: "Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:45:27 -0600
- Subject: Re: Yaakov, package maintainership details
- References: <20081112104236.GH17719@calimero.vinschen.de>
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> I'm trying to keep track of the maintainership changes due to the
> new X.Org stuff but I'm somewhat overwhelmed by the mere number.
:-)
> I assume the entire X.Org subdir and all of its packages are yours
> right now. Are they all part of the X.Org package so that, if
> package maintainership changes, all package changes? That would
> mean I can add just a single line to my package maintainer file
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint
>
> x.org Yaakov S
>
> Or is it better if I add all subpackages to that file?
You are correct that I am maintaining everything in X.Org/, but X.Org is
not a "package"; it is ~200 completely separate source packages that
could easily maintained by more than one person.
> What about the packages in X11? Which ones are obsolete, which have
> changed ownership to you? The changes I know of are
>
> fontconfig Jan Nieuwenhuizen --> Yaakov S
Actually fontconfig/libfontconfig1/libfontconfig-devel.
> lesstif Brian Ford --> Yaakov S
Now split into lesstif/libXm2/libXm-devel.
> libxft* Dr. Volker Zell --> Yaakov S
libXft* is now under X.Org/; libXft1 is OBSOLETE.
> xterm Jari Aalto --> Yaakov S
Yes.
> xorg-x11-* OBSOLETE
Added libXp6, libXaw8, libdpstk1 under xorg-x11-bin-dlls for backwards
compatibility, all OBSOLETE.
> Can you add a couple of details so I can update the maintainer file?
X-start-menu-icons is mine also; X-startup-scripts is OBSOLETE. I think
that's everything.
Yaakov
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