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.atz...@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 <strom...@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. >> -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
