Packaging Conundrum

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:04:41PM -0800, James R. Phillips wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Upstream for the newly added epstool package (Russell Lang) has asked via
> private email whether the CYGWIN-PATCHES subdir of a cygwin source package
> would really be required, if he modified the package makefile to
> include make targets for cygwin source and binary distributions.  In essence,
> the question is whether a patches subdir is required if there really are no
> patches required to build either the source or the binary distribution.
> 
> My guess is that such a subdir should always exist, containing at a minimum the
> setup.hint file.  But I'm not really certain.
> 
> Anyone have the answer for this?

IIRC http://cygwin.com/setup.html says the (required) cygwin-specific
readme goes there?