On May 2 23:15, Brian Inglis wrote: > Hi folks, > > Eric Blake no longer seems to have free time available for Cygwin package > upgrades, so I would like to offer to co-maintain coreutils and provide > upgrades as they are now five years old. > > I would like to provide an upgrade to the final version 8 release 8.32, > initially as a TEST release, before working on the latest release 9.1. > > Package sources and archives are available online at: > > https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1z_giKv3QIUbYvSNOiTtMMr644v-wOG_k > > and builds in playground from: > > https://cygwin.com/git-cygwin-packages/?p=git/cygwin-packages/playground.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/playground > > https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?srcpkg=playground&status=&user=Brian+Inglis&id=4119 > > https://github.com/cygwin/scallywag/actions/runs/2239985902 > > The jobs appear to fail because some checks fail and return non-zero status. > Comparing checks between ciurrent and proposed releases and across > x86/_64/CI jobs, there appear to be fewer failures despite more tests. > > All feedback is encouraged and gratefully received.
Thanks for picking up coreutils, which is not only by name a core package. I think this is at least worthy of a pink hippo ;) Corinna