On 2017-04-25 20:25, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2017-04-25 17:42, Brian Inglis wrote: >> As a long time user of Cygwin and units, both professionally and >> personally, I noticed a new release of units 2.14 was available >> but the package is orphaned. > > I have been nominally maintaining it anyway, but you're welcome to > take it.
One less thing on your plate - but your call. >> I built and installed the new release for myself, and thought I'd >> like to make it available to the community, so would like to adopt >> the package units. >> I've had no problems downloading the prvious source, bumping the >> cygport version, building, testing, installing, and using the new >> release. > > That is a good start, but: > >> units.cygport >> units-2.14-1.hint >> units-2.14-1.tar.xz >> units-2.14-1-src.tar.xz >> units-debuginfo-2.14-1.hint >> units-debuginfo-2.14-1.tar.xz > > This is the build from only one architecture. Each archful package > needs to be built for each of x86 (32-bit) and x86_64 (64-bit). Are > you set up to build both? Yes - I still upgrade x86 infrequently. >> I've read the contributor/maintainer guides but as this would be my >> first package contribution, I may need some help using calm, etc. > > "cygport upload" takes care of this for you. Thanks - was vaguely aware there were other commands, but obviously never had use for them. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada