Re: non-setup information in setup.hint (was Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22)

2003-11-26 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:40:43PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: BTW, another piece of non-setup information that might be useful is an up for adoption (or orphaned) flag. Why not make it a setup flag? Make a nasty little pop-up box pop up when you install an orphaned package - something like

Re: non-setup information in setup.hint (was Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22)

2003-11-26 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:40:43PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: BTW, another piece of non-setup information that might be useful is an up for adoption (or orphaned) flag. Why not make it a setup flag? Make a nasty little pop-up box pop

Re: non-setup information in setup.hint (was Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22)

2003-11-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 10:19:12AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:40:43PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: BTW, another piece of non-setup information that might be useful is an up for adoption (or orphaned) flag.

Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-25 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 12:37:21PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 05:13:04PM -, Daniel Reed wrote: splint Elfyn McBratney Has someone already proposed to take over maintainership of this

Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-25 Thread Joe Buehler
Daniel Reed wrote: emacs Joe Buehler !!! minor bump (freshmeat lists 21.3; we have 21.2) If 21.3 has indeed been released (been waiting for it), I will work on polishing it up for a new Cygwin package. emacs-elJoe Buehler !!! no source and

Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-25 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Joe, Joe Buehler wrote: Daniel Reed wrote: emacs Joe Buehler !!! minor bump (freshmeat lists 21.3; we have 21.2) If 21.3 has indeed been released (been waiting for it), I will work on polishing it up for a new Cygwin package. emacs-elJoe Buehler

Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-25 Thread Daniel Reed
On 2003-11-25T08:57-0500, Joe Buehler wrote: ) Daniel Reed wrote: ) emacs Joe Buehler !!! minor bump (freshmeat lists 21.3; we have 21.2) ) If 21.3 has indeed been released (been waiting for it), I will work on polishing ) it up for a new Cygwin package. There

Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-25 Thread Joe Buehler
Daniel Reed wrote: ) If 21.3 has indeed been released (been waiting for it), I will work on polishing ) it up for a new Cygwin package. There appears to be a copy available from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ . I spoke too soon -- I am actually waiting for 21.4, which has Cygwin support

Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 07:46:40PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 05:13:04PM -, Daniel Reed wrote: splint Elfyn McBratney Has someone already proposed to take over maintainership of this

RE: non-setup information in setup.hint (was Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22)

2003-11-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Daniel Reed wrote: [snip] The current attributes I use in apps.xml are: binary-only (no lack-of-source checks) ignore-before=X (ignore new versions less than or equal to X) ignore-freshmeat (for Cygwin-specific packages) maintainer (just the name)

RE: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-24 Thread Morrison, John
Daniel Reed wrote: On 2003-11-22T20:05-, John Morrison wrote: ) base-files ... !!! no source and no external-source ) base-passwd ... !!! no source and no external-source ) There is no source for these packages, they just contain ) shell and postinstall scripts. Should I do something?

RE: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-24 Thread Daniel Reed
On 2003-11-24T08:59-, Morrison, John wrote: ) Daniel Reed wrote: ) On 2003-11-22T20:05-, John Morrison wrote: ) I marked them as binary-only, so the next MPL (if there is a next ) one :) won't have that notice. ) I presume that's not something I need to keep (eg in the ) setup.hint

Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:55:40AM -0500, Daniel Reed wrote: On 2003-11-24T08:59-, Morrison, John wrote: ) Daniel Reed wrote: ) On 2003-11-22T20:05-, John Morrison wrote: ) I marked them as binary-only, so the next MPL (if there is a next ) one :) won't have that notice. ) I presume

[ITP] pdksh 5.2.14-3 (Was Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22)

2003-11-24 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Daniel Reed wrote: pdksh Elfyn McBratney Since Elfyn has disappeared, and his packages appear to be up for grabs, I'd like to take over maintainership of pdksh. I've repackaged it using method two, and fixed a few little things in the source package (full

Re: [ITP] pdksh 5.2.14-3 (Was Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22)

2003-11-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:31:34AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Daniel Reed wrote: pdksh Elfyn McBratney Since Elfyn has disappeared, and his packages appear to be up for grabs, I'd like to take over maintainership of pdksh. Thanks. Please give

Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-24 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 05:13:04PM -, Daniel Reed wrote: splint Elfyn McBratney Has someone already proposed to take over maintainership of this package? If not, I'd be willing to do so.. rlc

Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-24 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 05:13:04PM -, Daniel Reed wrote: splint Elfyn McBratney Has someone already proposed to take over maintainership of this package? If not, I'd be willing to do so.. rlc Ronald, Go ahead. I

xfig compatibility packages don't have source [Was: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22]

2003-11-24 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Daniel, Daniel Reed wrote: xfig-binHarold L Hunt II!!! no source and no external-source xfig-docHarold L Hunt II!!! no source and no external-source xfig-etcHarold L Hunt II!!! no source and no external-source xfig-man

Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 07:46:40PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 05:13:04PM -, Daniel Reed wrote: splint Elfyn McBratney Has someone already proposed to take over maintainership of this package? If not, I'd be willing to do so.. Gold

Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 07:48, Christopher Faylor wrote: cgf (who's madly trying to think up some scheme to make the gold stars actually worth something) Whats the exchange rate :}. Rob -- GPG key available at: http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt. signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-24 Thread Warren Young
Christopher Faylor wrote: (who's madly trying to think up some scheme to make the gold stars actually worth something) Votes on ITP requests and suchlike.

non-setup information in setup.hint (was Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22)

2003-11-24 Thread Daniel Reed
On 2003-11-24T11:01-0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: ) On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:55:40AM -0500, Daniel Reed wrote: ) For now it's just in my records. Even if it is made publicly tunable, I ) imagine it will be made outside of setup.hint (since that is for setup's ) benefit). ) We could decide on a

Re: non-setup information in setup.hint (was Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22)

2003-11-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:17:51PM -0500, Daniel Reed wrote: On 2003-11-24T11:01-0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: ) On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:55:40AM -0500, Daniel Reed wrote: ) For now it's just in my records. Even if it is made publicly tunable, I ) imagine it will be made outside of setup.hint

Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22 (volunteering for patchutils)

2003-11-23 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 11:55:57PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 05:13:04PM -, Daniel Reed wrote: patchutils Elfyn McBratney !!! minor bump (freshmeat lists 0.2.24; we have 0.2.22) Any

Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-22 Thread Daniel Reed
This is the list of maintainers and packages as of Saturday, November 22, 2003. === Packages' Maintainer List === _update-info-dirChristopher Faylor a2ps

Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 05:13:04PM -, Daniel Reed wrote: This is the list of maintainers and packages as of Saturday, November 22, 2003. Thanks! Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer

Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Daniel, On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 05:13:04PM -, Daniel Reed wrote: crypt Corinna Vinschen!!! major jump (freshmeat lists 2.91; we have 1.1) Crack that. The crypt package in Cygwin has an entirely different source, which is also entirely stale. New versions of

RE: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-22 Thread John Morrison
base-files ... !!! no source and no external-source base-passwd ... !!! no source and no external-source There is no source for these packages, they just contain shell and postinstall scripts. Should I do something? J.

Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 05:13:04PM -, Daniel Reed wrote: base-files John Morrison !!! no source and no external-source base-passwd John Morrison !!! no source and no external-source Neither of these need source or external source. flex

Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 08:05:12PM -, John Morrison wrote: base-files ... !!! no source and no external-source base-passwd ... !!! no source and no external-source There is no source for these packages, they just contain shell and postinstall scripts. Should I do something? Nope. cgf

RE: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-22 Thread Daniel Reed
On 2003-11-22T20:05-, John Morrison wrote: ) base-files ... !!! no source and no external-source ) base-passwd ... !!! no source and no external-source ) There is no source for these packages, they just contain ) shell and postinstall scripts. Should I do something? I marked them as

Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 04:09:04PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: Unless there is a real need for this service, I don't see a reason to advertise out-of-date packages publicly. There is no requirement that every package in the cygwin distribution be absolutely up-to-date. IMO, sending out

Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22 (volunteering for patchutils)

2003-11-22 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 05:13:04PM -, Daniel Reed wrote: patchutils Elfyn McBratney !!! minor bump (freshmeat lists 0.2.24; we have 0.2.22) Any volunteers for this one? If not, I'll just delete it. I volunteer. I'll put together packages,

Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22 (volunteering for patchutils)

2003-11-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 11:55:57PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 05:13:04PM -, Daniel Reed wrote: patchutils Elfyn McBratney !!! minor bump (freshmeat lists 0.2.24; we have 0.2.22) Any volunteers for this one? If not,

Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-22 Thread Daniel Reed
On 2003-11-22T16:09-0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: ) On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 05:13:04PM -, Daniel Reed wrote: ) flexChristopher Faylor !!! minor bump (freshmeat lists 2.5.27; we have 2.5.4a) ) See the latest flex release announcement. It looks like 2.5.27 is the

RE: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-22 Thread Sergey Okhapkin
) initscripts Sergey Okhapkin !!! no source and no external-source !!! last updated 2002-11-19 ) Shouldn't need source since it is source. Alrighty; another binary-only. Do you mean source-only?-) Sergey Okhapkin Somerset, NJ

Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 06:59:12PM -0500, Daniel Reed wrote: On the other hand, speaking as a developer, when I do make a release, there is usually a decent reason. If nothing else, I believe the maintainers of [apparently] out-of-date packages should at least be prepared to explain why the

RE: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-22 Thread Daniel Reed
On 2003-11-22T19:31-0500, Sergey Okhapkin wrote: ) ) initscripts Sergey Okhapkin !!! no ) source and no external-source !!! last updated 2002-11-19 ) ) Shouldn't need source since it is source. ) Alrighty; another binary-only. ) Do you mean source-only?-) There are only