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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