On 2/15/2025 6:42 AM, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
I've orphaned the following packages:
chere Dave Kilroy
ELFIO Serge Lamikhov-Center
task Federico Hernandez
tftp Gernot Hillier
The maintainers of which have been inactive for a long time, and didn't
respond to my attempts to contact them.
Consequently, these maintainers' (long unused) ssh keys are also disabled.
In the interest of helping with the Cygwin ecosystem, I'm willing to
take on these four packages. Even if I can't update them immediately
I'm sure to be more responsive on the mailing lists than the current
maintainers. I'll find some tuits around here somewhere.
These packages are all leaves in the dependency tree, and so maybe also
candidates for removal:
chere ('Cygwin Prompt Here') is probably still used and useful, but
could probably benefit from some love and better integration (as
discussed at [1], nearly a year ago now, sigh...)
[1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-February/255441.html
tftpd is potentially useful for booting really dumb pieces of hardware,
but the version we provide is so old, this may be a disservice.
ELFIO (which should perhaps be named elfio-devel) is a header-only
library, so may be build-time dependency of other packages.
Unfortunately that information is not recorded for many older packages.
My brief searches haven't discovered any users of it.
Appreciate the current status notes. I would make use of each in turn.
I have a special interest with 'task': I'd like to provide a current
version on Cygwin in spite of its upstream recommending WSL over Cygwin.
We'll see.
HTH,
..mark
