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Re: Packages up for adoption


Yaakov?  Ping?


On Feb  6 17:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb  6 09:49, Sam Robb wrote:
> > [...]
> >   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.  

For instance, can the part of e2fsprogs which util-linux relies upon be
integrated into util-linux?  Can we drop cramfs?


Corinna

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