Hi Jeremy,
On 4/24/2025 11:57 AM, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin-apps wrote:
On Wed, 23 Apr 2025, Mark Geisert via Cygwin wrote:
A new version 1.4.17-4 of the cygutils packages with a corrected
'cygstart' is now making its way to the mirrors.
Can I ask why patches are made in the packaging rather than applied to
the cygwin-apps/cygutils git repository, given that this package is
"local" to Cygwin and therefore has no other "upstream"? How would you
decide to make a 1.4.17-4 rather than a 1.4.18-1?
A fair question.
I think cygutils might have been the first package I ITA'd years ago. I
wasn't yet up to speed on the whole package management framework. I'm
(somewhat) better with the more recent adoptions I've made. As time
permits all the packages I manage will be done identically and involve
the cygwin-apps git repository, the CI process, etc.
I personally would probably go to 1.4.18-1 when some major packaging
change was made. I went from 1.4.16 to 1.4.17 when I took over from
Chuck Wilson.
As for every maintainer here (and elsewhere), lack of time is an issue.
Cheers,
..mark
