Questions on package adoption conventions

[Mark Geisert]

Thanks Marco.

On Fri, 30 Oct 2015, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 30/10/2015 22:48, Mark Geisert wrote:
>> Q3: What kind of external access is typically used for hosting final
>> builds?  I've run a micro-ISP that allowed on-request FTP access, by IP
>> address, to customers, but have not needed to run anonymous FTP to this
>> point.  What about SSH/SFTP?  Is there such a thing as anonymous SFTP?
>> Does HTTP and/or HTTPS access need to be provided?
>
> Upload instructions:
> https://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/package-upload.html

D'oh, users download source packages from cygwin.com, of course.

I was confused by the SRC_URI= line in cygutils.cygport.  Does that merely 
indicate where this package came from at the time the .cygport file was 
written, or does it denote a commitment by the maintainer to continue 
hosting the package from that URI?  If the latter, that's why I was asking
about access methods.  Is SRC_URI required?

..mark