Yaakov, package maintainership details

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Nov 13 14:36:00 GMT 2008


On Nov 13 11:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Nov 12 10:45, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > 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 libXft* is now under X.Org/; libXft1 is OBSOLETE.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 X-start-menu-icons is mine also; X-startup-scripts is OBSOLETE.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.

I hope I catched everything.  Would you mind to take a quick look?
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint


Thanks,
Corinna

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