Inactive maintainer package orphaning (part 2)
Jon Turney
jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Mon May 26 15:12:31 GMT 2025
On 25/03/2025 05:51, Mark Geisert via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Hi Jon,
>
> On 3/23/2025 9:14 AM, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>
>> I've orphaned the following packages:
>>
>> chicken Christian Kellermann
>> iperf Battu Kaushik
>> libfakesu Daniel Boland
>> libnfc Marcos Vives Del Sol
>> procmail Daniel Boland
>> sendmail Daniel Boland
>> varnish Jorge Diaz
>>
>> The maintainers of which have been inactive for a long time (no
>> activity since 2015), and didn't respond to my attempts to contact them.
>>
>> Consequently, these maintainers' (long unused) ssh keys are also
>> disabled.
>>
>> Again, these packages are all leaves in the dependency tree, and so
>> maybe also candidates for removal.
>
> I'm willing to take on iperf, libfakesu, procmail, and sendmail.
>
> The latter two have not advanced much in versions despite the years
> involved. libfakesu is required for both of them. iperf looks more
> interesting to me; updating it might give me some experience to use to
> finish my long-dormant port of iozone to Cygwin.
I've processed these. (sorry about the delay!)
> +iperf Mark Geisert
> +libfakesu Mark Geisert
> +procmail Mark Geisert
> +sendmail Mark Geisert
Thanks.
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