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Re: Please upload xmon-1.5.6-1 (new package)


On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 12:35:50PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:32:40AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:44:09PM -0700, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:38:36AM -0700, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 02:14:16AM -0700, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I packaged the xmon program today (and used it extensively, so I know 
>>>>>>>it works) for Cygwin.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I took the liberty of checking Debian and see that this is a standard
>>>>>>package there, so there is no need to vote on this.
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks, I wasn't sure what the current rules were.  Glad it was in Debian.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>But, where's the setup.hint file?
>>>>>
>>>>>Uhh... I hope I'm not misunderstanding the question... but, in the 
>>>>>original email?!?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>http://homer.starnet.com/~hunth/cygwin/release/X11/xmon/setup.hint
>>>>>>7ab56809ff065a5e46693f49a1099f84 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From http://cygwin.com/setup.html
>>>>
>>>>Submitting a package
>>>>
>>>>	So you've got a package you want to submit.  Follow the following
>>>>	checklist before emailing cygwin-apps@cygwin.com and you'll almost
>>>>	certainly save time.
>>>>
>>>>	1.  Propose on cygwin-apps that you are interested in becoming a
>>>>	package maintainer for package foo.  Some packages cannot be
>>>>	distributed via cygwin's setup due to vendor licence limitations.
>>>>	Other packages may not be appropriate for cygwin.  This step will 
>>>>	save
>>>>	time if, for some reason we cannot accept the package.
>>>>
>>>>	2.  If this is a new package, *post a complete setup.hint file as 
>>>>	part
>>>>	of your proposal*.  Include this file in the text of your message so
>>>>	that it can be commented on.  Do not submit it as an attachment.
>>>
>>>Are we posting or quoting rules?
>>>
>>>I have no interest in pedantics.
>>
>>You asked why I was asking about the setup.hint file.  This is why.
>>
>>I didn't see any obvious reason why I should refrain from pointing out
>>the rules to you since I and others do that whenever someone sends an
>>incomplete ITP here.
>
>sdesc: "An interactive X protocol monitor"
>ldesc: "Xmon interactively monitors the byte-stream connections between an X
>server and a number of X clients.  Xmon recognises all requests,
>events, errors and replies sent between the clients and the server
>which are part of the core X protocol.  The contents of these messages
>are displayed on standard output at a user settable degree of detail
>from none to every bit and byte."
>category: X11
>requires: cygwin xorg-x11-bin-dlls
>
>There is no need to include "requires: cygwin".  That's a given.

Nope.  Nevermind.  I was wrong.  I thought upset adds this automatically but it
doesn't.

I've uploaded this package.

cgf


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