Update zathura?

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Sat Aug 29 00:20:03 GMT 2020


On 8/28/2020 6:29 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 2:23 PM Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On 8/28/2020 2:37 PM, Keith Thompson via Cygwin wrote:
>>> Cygwin currently provides zathura version 0.3.3, which was released in 2014.
>>> The latest version is 0.4.5, released in 2020, which fixes at least
>>> one rather annoying bug.
>>>
>>> If the maintainer could update it to the latest version, I would appreciate it.
>>>
>>> (Yes, I know I'm asking for free labor.)
>>
>> Cygwin's zathura maintainer has retired.  Are you interested in taking over?
>>
>> Ken
> 
> I guess I should have expected that. 8-)}
> 
> Quite possibly yes. I'll look over the Contributor's Guide and get back to you.
> 
> Looking through setup.ini, I see that there are a number of zathura* packages:
> 
> zathura
> zathura-cb
> zathura-cb-debuginfo
> zathura-debuginfo
> zathura-devel
> zathura-djvu
> zathura-djvu-debuginfo
> zathura-pdf-poppler
> zathura-pdf-poppler-debuginfo
> zathura-ps
> zathura-ps-debuginfo
> 
> Also, zathura depends on libgirara (and nothing else does), so that adds:
> 
> girara-debuginfo
> libgirara-common
> libgirara-devel
> libgirara-gtk3_2
> 
> It looks like they all have the same maintainer, so I'd probably have
> to take over all of them, right?

Yes.  If you want to so this, follow up on the cygwin-apps list.  People there 
will be glad to help you.

Ken


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