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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 as my home Windows boxes have aged, they've been replaced by Macs and Linux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
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