An update:

> * Boost
> * CMake
 > * OCaml
 > * Qt4
 > * Xpdf

No news on these so far.

> * FLTK
> Ports' version is *NIX/X11, the distro's is Win32/GDI.  Nothing in the
> distro uses its version, but two Ports packages use our version.  The
> good news is that only the -devel packages collide; the runtimes do not,
> so it's not urgent.

Marco, what are your plans for adopting this?  Have you been in touch 
with the current maintainer, Teun?

> * Tcl/Tk
> Again, Ports' version is *NIX/X11, the distro's is Win32/GDI.  There's
> been plenty of talk about switching to the X11 version on the lists, and
> AFAIK a switch would be accepted, but this switch affects a number of
> packages, so the transition would need some work.  This would remove the
> primary reason for Ports' python and ruby packages as well.

Reviewing some earlier discussion on this, I saw Dave also addressed the 
'lib' prefix issue.  The reason that I didn't bother with changing the 
prefix to 'cyg' for the TEA-based packages (tcl, tk, tk-img, tk-tix, 
tk-togl) is that the TEA system uses a completely different way to 
distinguish between Windows and *NIX: the Win32 DLLs have *no* prefix 
nor a '.' in the version number (libtcl8.5.dll vs. tcl84.dll). 
Therefore, *for this particular build system*, I saw no point in doing 
so.  Of course, Ports' Tcl recognizes both 'cyg' and 'lib' prefixes, as 
some Tcl extensions (e.g. berkeley-db, graphviz, sqlite3) are built with 
libtool.

AFAIK, this is the reasoning behind python (libpython2.5.dll vs. 
python25.dll), and I did this as well with R (libR.dll).  These are the 
only libraries which don't use the 'cyg' prefix.

> * e2fsprogs
> Distro package is orphaned.  Ports' package is current and also provides
> shared libraries, but there is a bit of an issue that its libuuid
> "shadows" the (completely unrelated) w32api import lib of the same name.
>    I frankly don't care, but someone else might.  (Whatever happened to
> the discussion of moving w32api out of the default include/lib paths?)
> Fixing this overlap would allow the util-linux overlap to be removed as
> well.

Does nobody care about the w32api uuid.dll import lib?

> cppunit: needs update/rebuild for gcc4; request sent to main list.

No response so far; pinged tonight.

 > * DocBook

Ports packages moved into distro.

> links: orphaned in distro.

Correction: not orphaned.  Renamed Ports package to links2 to avoid 
conflict.

> plotutils: orphaned in distro.

Adopted by Marco.  Thanks!

> units: needs update/packaging fix for FHS; request sent to list.

Updated.

Also forgot earlier:

* python-crypto: several patches, including CVE-2009-0544.
* Tidy: needs update; request sent to list.


Yaakov

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