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Re: [UPDATE] Pending package status (25 Jun 2003)


On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote:

> 10. glimpse
>
> date   : 02 Jun 2003
> version: 4.17.4-1
> status : on hold
> notes  : http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00010.html
>          http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00013.html
>          http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00014.html
> votes  : 3 (Christopher, Gerrit and Joe)
> url    : http://www.tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/chase/chase-0.5-1-src.tar.bz2
>          http://www.tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/chase/chase-0.5-1.tar.bz2
>          http://www.tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/chase/setup.hint

As noted in one of the notes above, Jari recieved acknowledgement from
the glimpse maintainer regarding licensing. As the upstream maintainer has OK'd
this distribution as long as a file regarding corporate usage (license note?) is
inserted into the binary package, can this package be taken "off hold"? As long
as the file is inserted into the package?

I'm wondering.. Will it conflict if their license isn't GPL or OSD compatible?
Regarding linking it with Cygwin and thus automatically making this
distribution of glimpse GPL'd?

> 16. Aspell-en
>
> date   : 19 Jun 2003
> version: 0.51.0-1
> status : not (yet) reviewed
> notes  : http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00161.html
> votes  : 0 (aspell prerequisite)
> url    : http://blytkerchan.chez.tiscali.fr/aspell-en-0.51.0-1.tar.bz2
>          http://blytkerchan.chez.tiscali.fr/aspell-en-0.51.0-1-src.tar.bz2

I've just been reviewing aspell* . It's looking good, layout wise. But, I can't
run aspell as the libaspell package cannot be found (on the server). One other
thing you might want to add to the binary package is a spell checker shell script
for use in pine or mutt. Linux Aspell does this (/usr/bin/alt_speller.sh?) and
you just invoke that script from your MUA.

> 18. cygbuild
>
> date   : 12 Jun 2003
> version: 2003.0612-1
> status : not reviewed
> notes  : http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00104.html
>          http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00105.html
> votes  : 0
> url    : http://www.tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/cygbuild/cygbuild-2003.0612-1-src.tar.bz2
>          http://www.tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/cygbuild/cygbuild-2003.0612-1.tar.bz2

Do we go with the status quo with this package? IMO, and this isn't personal, we
should stick with the defined methods for creating packages for the Cygwin
distro.

Elfyn
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