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Re: notice of package removal
- From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 02:04:23 -0600
- Subject: Re: notice of package removal
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On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 17:10 +0100, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> I justed noticed you zapped proftpd when at the same time
> I was working to upgrade and build the 64 bit version.
>
> No objection to remove packages; we have a lot in bad state
> and some are dead upstream but it will be nice to be synchronized.
proftpd was orphaned last month[1], and I hadn't seen any indication
that there was interest in adopting it. While I have been rebuilding
some of the simpler orphaned packages, proftpd didn't appear to qualify
after a quick look. If you are interested in adopting, the old sources
should still be in the Cygwin Time Machine, although given how old they
were, Fedora's packaging[2] may be more useful.
[1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2015-01/msg00085.html
[2] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/proftpd.git/tree/
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Yaakov