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Re: Unbelievably obscure setup bug


On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 11:04:02AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Nov 19 19:13, David Sastre wrote:
> > Is there a chance that this bug provides an opportunity to merge
> > base-files and base-passwd? I was told it was difficult (or at least
> > not recommended) because of a dependency chain issue.
> > 
> > Please excuse me if this is non-sense.
> 
> It's not.  But it would make much more sense to combine base-cygwin and
> base-passwd.  Base-files is pretty low priority in the dependency order,
> in contrast to the other two.
> 
> If we combine base-cygwin and base-passwd into one, we would
> have one less problem.
> 
> I volunteer to combine them into a single base-cygwin package, if
> nobody knows a good reason why the functionality should stay separated.
> 
> David, would you like to take over base-files?  It's still officially
> orphaned...

I'll pack a release during next week.
Thanks for being patience, though (not much spare time these days...)

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