-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello!
I would like to create (and maintain) cygwin packages for libmhash (http://mhash.sourceforge.net/) and libmcrypt (http://mcrypt.sourceforge.net/). Following the instructions in the Cygwin Package Contributor's Guide I post here first to ask if these two packages would be accepted. libmhash: # setup.hint for libmhash-0.8.18-1 sdesc: "a library that provides access to several hash algorithms" ldesc: "A library that provides a uniform interface to several hash algorithms. It supports the basics for message authentication by following rfc2104 (HMAC). It also includes some key generation algorithms which are based on hash algorithms." category: Libs requires: cygwin The tarball as distributed by the author is named mhash-0.8.18 and not libmhash-0.8.18. Is there any cygwin policy that the cygwin package name and the original tarball need to have the same name ? If not, I think it would make sense to call the cygwin package libmhash to indicate that this package contains a library (only). libmcrypt: # setup.hint for libmcrypt-2.5.7-1 sdesc: "a library that provides access to several encryption algorithms" ldesc: "A library that provides access to several symmetric block and stream encryption algorithms. The following algorithms are implemented: 3-Way, Arcfour, Blowfish, Cast-128 (known as Cast5), Cast-256, DES, Enigma, Gost, Loki97, Panama, RC2, Rijndael-128 (AES), Rijndael-192, Rijndael-256, Safer-sk64, Safer-sk128, Safer+, Serpent, TripleDES, Twofish, Wake, XTea. The block algorithms can be used in the modes CBC, CFB, CTR, ECB, OFB, NOFB, NCFB." category: Libs requires: cygwin libltdl3 The standard libmcrypt tarball does not include some algorithms that are covered by patents. As the cygwin package would be based on this tarball, it would also not contain patented algorithms. Both, libmhash and libmcrypt are distributed under the LGPL. Greetings, Stefan Hetzl -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/dVmbKN/5Ocgn19gRAkEsAJ0WayLuAuP2GD/om6UjsXzbi9qUTQCdF9bZ Mj3jjPhPwc9DvEh0IEjucpo= =RQ/+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
