On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 09:04:15AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >On 4/28/2011 3:42 AM, Erwin Waterlander wrote: >> I propose package 'dos2unix' for cygwin. Dos2unix is part of Fedora, >> Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Slackware, and Arch Linux. The homepage is >> http://www.xs4all.nl/~waterlan/dos2unix.html >> >> http://www.xs4all.nl/~waterlan/cygwin/dos2unix-5.3-1.tar.bz2 >> http://www.xs4all.nl/~waterlan/cygwin/dos2unix-5.3-1-src.tar.bz2 > >Packaging GTG. Since dos2unix is found on other OS's, Erwin doesn't >need votes. However, the package conflicts with cygutils -- but I agree >with moving these tools to their own package. > >So, there are three things to do: > > 1) update cygutils to NOT ship dos2unix/d2u/unix2dos/u2d > any longer. > 2) evaluate the existing setup.hints that require: cygutils, > and determine if any of them do so solely because they need > d2u/u2d -- and if so, notify their owners they need to add > the new dos2unix package to their requires. > 3) Upload cygutils-$NEXT and dos2unix simultaneously. > >I can handle #3, and will do so as soon as I finish #1 and #2. > >> category: Utils >> requires: libintl8 libiconv2 libgcc1 >> sdesc: "Line Ending Conversion" >> ldesc: "The dos2unix package provides conversion utilities to manipulate >> the line endings of text files. These tools can convert between Unix, >> DOS/Windows, and (pre OS-X) Mac, as well as perform certain other >> character set manipulations."
You have up upload privileges right so could you make all of the magic happen here Chuck? cgf
