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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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