Re: [ITA] _autorebase

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

Hi Jason,

I'm glad to read from you!

On Jan  8 21:32, Jason Tishler wrote:
> Corinna,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 05:09:50PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Reini?  Jason?
> > 
> > Three weeks without reply is a long time... :}
> > 
> > Any input?
> > 
> > On Dec 17 19:05, Achim Gratz wrote:
> > > Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > > > That should be fine, given the rather short list of affected
> > > > maintainers:
> > > >
> > > >   octave   Marco Atzeri
> > > >   perl     Reini Urban/Achim Gratz ?!?
> > > >   php      Yaakov Selkowitz
> > > >   python   Jason Tishler/Yaakov Selkowitz
> > > >   R        Marco Atzeri
> > > >   ruby     Yaakov Selkowitz
> > > >
> > > > As for perl, are you still with us Reini?  As for python, Jason,
> > > > you're still around?
> > > 
> > > If Reini is still waiting for his machines to arrive or if some of
> > > the old packages need work, I can do the packaging.  I'd just need
> > > help with the upload, I guess.
> 
> Sorry, but I missed this post until you CC-ed me yesterday. I just read
> the thread again. Are you asking about the following?
> 
> > In fact if we do that, I'd like to require either new releases for the
> > packages using /etc/rebase/dynpath.d or alternatively that they get an
> > additional package that drops just this file (if a full release _now_
> > would be too much work) and the requisite change to setup.hint to have
> > a dependency added so that this new package gets pulled in.

Basically, yes.  It's a simple packaging thing AFAIU.  The files are
available in Achim's preliminiary _autorebase package.  It would be
nice if you and the other maintainers could discuss this with Achim.


Thanks,
Corinna

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