On Feb 6 09:49, Sam Robb wrote: > All, > > A few years and a few jobs back, I picked up maintenance of a couple of > cygwin packages related to embedded system development. Things have > changed a lot in the past few years, and I find myself in the position of > not having a Windows system at home or at work that I can use for cygwin > development (nothing bad... just that my current workplace uses Macs, and > as my home Windows boxes have aged, they've been replaced by Macs and Linux > systems :-)
It's probbaly good for you, but I'm sorry to read that you're leaving us nevertheless. Thanks for maintaining these packages all the time. > So, I'm putting the following packages up for adoption or retirement. > They're kind of old and crufty - no significant updates in the past 3 years > - and so might require a little bit of attention to bring them up to date > with the current state of the cygwin world. There are others that might > just be retired; it looks like util-linux, for example, now provides a more > up to date version of the cramfs utilities. > > If you're interested in taking over as maintainer of any of these > packages, or think that any of them should be retired, please speak up. > > * cramfs > * e2fsimage > * e2fsprogs > * mtd > * nfs-server > * sunrpc AFAICS, util-linux depends on e2fsprogs but otherwise there are no other dependencies except for nfs-server depending on sunrpc. As for cramfs and e2fsprogs I guess Yaakov would be an ideal candidate to decide about the future of these packages. > -Samrobb All the best for the future, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
