Yaakov, package maintainership details
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Nov 13 10:35:00 GMT 2008
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 libXft* is now under X.Org/; libXft1 is OBSOLETE.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 X-start-menu-icons is mine also; X-startup-scripts is OBSOLETE.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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