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Re: Missing 64 bit packages
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 09:11:37 +0200
- Subject: Re: Missing 64 bit packages
- References: <20130805092552 dot GM23060 at calimero dot vinschen dot de> <520152FF dot 3050704 at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Aug 6 20:48, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 05/08/2013 10:25, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > below's the latest list of packages yet mssing in the 64 bit distro. It
> > got a bit shorter, but there's still a lot of stuff missing. I'll look
> > into generating 64 bit packages for some of them as time permits, but it
> > would be better if the real maintainer could do the job.
> >
> > There's also the problem of missing maintainers again. Some of the
> > names in the below list didn't show up for a long time. Please guys, be
> > so kind as to reply to this mail, so we can check if some packages are
> > orphaned, or if you are just busy.
>
> > ORPHANED
> > xmon
>
> I do use this occasionally, so if Yaakov doesn't want this, I will adopt it.
>
> > Jon Turney
> >
> > xlaunch
> > xview
>
> xlaunch is done.
>
> There is no 64-bit version of xview. It does not build correctly for x86_64.
> It appears there were some efforts towards fixing this, but they were not
> completed and/or gave up in disgust since apparently fixing things will
> probably require fixing all xview clients as well ([1] has some of the hideous
> details)
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=125391
Ok, no worries. I removed the xview package from cygwin-64bit-missing.
Thanks,
Corinna
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