On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 12:35:19AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >Hans W. Horn wrote: >>Alright, >> >>Max Bowsher wrote: >>>No, still wrong. You didn't read what I said carefully enough. >>>You *need* to understand: >>>Filenames are expected to be EXACTLY: >>>NAME-VERSION-RELEASE.tar.bz2 >>>NAME-VERSION-RELEASE-src.tar.bz2 >>I guess I never appreciated the subtle naming convention used for cygwin >>packages. Honestly, my impression was that names go all over the map. >>Fixed (I think). >> >>>>+++ doxygen_1.4.2-20050410/doc/language.doc +++ >>>>doxygen_1.4.2-20050410/doc/translator_report.txt +++ >>>>doxygen_1.4.2-20050410/examples/example.tag >>>These files are touched during a 'make install_docs'. >>Excluded offending diffs from patch. > >Having got the superficial naming problems out of the way, I took a closer >look at the source packaging. > >There were many issues - the most serious being that the source package did >not even contain the Cygwin specific readme at all - and many minor >deficiencies related to using a home-grown build script, rather than the >tried-and-true cygwin template. > >I am sorry, but the conclusion I came to was that it would be less effort >for me to produce my own packages of doxygen, based on the the >generic-build-script, than to assist in getting these packages up to a >good-to-go status. > >Accordingly, I hereby ITP doxygen myself: >Setup.exe installation site: >http://unicorn.robinson.cam.ac.uk/~mob22/cygdoxygen/
I've waited several days to respond to this because I wanted to make sure that I was in the proper emotional state and didn't just fire off a knee-jerk reaction. Nevertheless, I remain appalled by this turn of events. I saw nothing in Hans' email which indicated that he's unwilling to be cooperative about packaging problems so I see no reason to pull the package from him. Hans is not the first person to have to go through a moderate amount of pain before getting the packaging right and if the biggest complaint of his source packaging is that it doesn't contain the cygwin README, then that is not a big deal. I don't know how to resolve this situation but I do know for sure that neither Corinna nor I are going to "reward" someone by making them a package maintainer after essentially publicly insulting another volunteer. Hans, this is still yours if you want it. Otherwise, MaxB has disqualified himself from doxygen package maintainership, so I guess we're in the market for a maintainer again. cgf
