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Re: [ITA] procps
- From: Wayne Porter <wporter82 at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 00:42:13 -0700
- Subject: Re: [ITA] procps
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Ok, good to know. I was working on this as an exercise in porting code and saw that the current version was quite old. Should I email the current maintainer directly instead of putting it out on the mailing list?
On March 16, 2016 12:35:06 AM PDT, Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 16/03/2016 08:14, Wayne Porter wrote:
>> I'm new to this community so I wasn't sure if I went about this the
>proper way. 3.3.11 is the latest but is not listed as stable in the
>debian package list. I was going by the guidelines on the contribution
>page that for it to be considered for the repos that it has to be.
>>
>
>Usually you can only adopt orphan package.
>In this case procps is not orphan but it has a very active maintainer
>https://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint
>
>
>> On March 15, 2016 11:52:35 PM PDT, Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
>wrote:
>>> Wayne Porter writes:
>>>> I have just finished porting procps 3.3.9 and wanted to share it
>with
>>>> the community.
>>>
>>> That's actually procps-ng or is it not? If so, it seems the current
>>> version is 3.3.11 from looking at my Linux box.
>>>
>>> Also, the current procps maintainer is quite active on the Cygwin
>ml,
>>> so
>>> it would have been a good idea to ask for an update first before
>doing
>>> an ITA. :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Achim.
>>
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