Up for new maintainer - base-files and base-passwd

[Jon TURNEY]

On 14/09/2010 10:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Sep 14 11:07, David Sastre wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:54:05AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Sep 13 10:33, John Morrison wrote:
>>>> It is with regrets that I give up the maintainership of the cygwin
>>>> base-files and base-passwd packages.
>>>
>>> Anybody willing to take over a few bash scripts?
>>
>> I'd like to do that. Is there a detailed list of things to correct in the
>
> Cool, thank you!
>
>> base-files package? Or should I look for that info in the archives?
>
> This is only spreaded throughout the cygwin and cygwin-apps ML archives.
> There was also a recent discussion on cygwin-developers, see
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2010-09/msg00007.html

There's also the issue I reported in [1] where interactive shells which have a 
non-interactive shell in their ancestry don't get PS1 set correctly.

(This affects the shell started by xterm when started from the X tray menu 
when X is started from the start menu short cut, and can also be demonstrated 
with 'bash -c bash')