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Re: ITP: tack-1.06-1
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:13:42 -0500
- Subject: Re: ITP: tack-1.06-1
- References: <49A35709.301@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:10:17PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>The tack program is a diagnostic that is designed to create and verify
>the correctness of terminfo's. This program can be used to create new
>terminal descriptions that are not included in the standard terminfo
>database.
>
>tack was distributed as part of the ncurses package until (upstream)
>5.7, when it was spun out into its own package. Since I have updated
>cygwin's ncurses package(s) to 5.7, the new versions are "deficient"
>compared to the old ones. This package remedies that.
>
>tack is part of Fedora 7, 8, 9, and 10:
>http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=5002
>
>
>================ setup.hint ==================
>category: Utils
>requires: cygwin libncurses8
>sdesc: "Utility for creating and verifying termi
>ldesc: "The tack program is a diagnostic that is
>create and verify the correctness of terminfo's.
>can be used to create new terminal descriptions
>included in the standard terminfo database."
>================ setup.hint ==================
>
>cygwin-1.5:
>http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/tack-1.06-1-src.tar.bz2
>http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/tack-1.06-1.tar.bz2
>
>cygwin-1.7:
>http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/tack-1.06-10-src.tar.bz2
>http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/tack-1.06-10.tar.bz2
>
>OK to upload?
Sure. If we can't trust you to know the drill by now then the Cygwin
project is in seriously bad shape.
cgf