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Re: Yaakov, package maintainership details


On Nov 12 10:45, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
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> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > I'm trying to keep track of the maintainership changes due to the
> > new X.Org stuff but I'm somewhat overwhelmed by the mere number.
> 
> :-)
> 
> > I assume the entire X.Org subdir and all of its packages are yours
> > right now.  Are they all part of the X.Org package so that, if
> > package maintainership changes, all package changes?  That would
> > mean I can add just a single line to my package maintainer file
> > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint
> > 
> >   x.org		Yaakov S
> > 
> > Or is it better if I add all subpackages to that file?
> 
> You are correct that I am maintaining everything in X.Org/, but X.Org is
> not a "package"; it is ~200 completely separate source packages that
> could easily maintained by more than one person.
> 
> > What about the packages in X11?  Which ones are obsolete, which have
> > changed ownership to you?  The changes I know of are
> > 
> >   fontconfig                     Jan Nieuwenhuizen  -->  Yaakov S
> 
> Actually fontconfig/libfontconfig1/libfontconfig-devel.
> 
> >   lesstif                        Brian Ford         -->  Yaakov S
> 
> Now split into lesstif/libXm2/libXm-devel.
> 
> >   libxft*                        Dr. Volker Zell    -->  Yaakov S
> 
> libXft* is now under X.Org/; libXft1 is OBSOLETE.
> 
> >   xterm                          Jari Aalto         -->  Yaakov S
> 
> Yes.
> 
> >   xorg-x11-*                     OBSOLETE
> 
> Added libXp6, libXaw8, libdpstk1 under xorg-x11-bin-dlls for backwards
> compatibility, all OBSOLETE.
> 
> > Can you add a couple of details so I can update the maintainer file?
> 
> X-start-menu-icons is mine also; X-startup-scripts is OBSOLETE.  I think
> that's everything.

Cool, thank you.  I will change cygwin-pkg-main accordingly later today.


Corinna

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