Re: Bonfire of the Packages

2023-09-24 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps
Am 24.09.2023 um 20:20 schrieb gstrauss via Cygwin-apps: On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 01:32:59PM +0100, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote: Generally, we have a large number of old, unmaintained packages. The policy [1] has always been "Packages without an active maintainer may be pulled from the d

Re: Bonfire of the Packages

2023-09-24 Thread gstrauss via Cygwin-apps
On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 01:32:59PM +0100, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote: > > Generally, we have a large number of old, unmaintained packages. > > The policy [1] has always been "Packages without an active maintainer may be > pulled from the distribution.", but not actively enforced (in fact pr

Re: Drop djgpp-{binutils,gcc-*,runtime} 32-bit packages

2023-09-24 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps
On 2023-09-24 08:10, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 24.09.2023 um 14:32 schrieb Jon Turney: On 08/09/2023 18:29, Brian Inglis wrote: Thinking we could drop the ancient (8 years) orphaned DJGPP 32-bit (by definition) packages; they are older than djgpp current, never mind beta on gcc 13; from DJ's late

Re: Drop djgpp-{binutils,gcc-*,runtime} 32-bit packages

2023-09-24 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps
Am 24.09.2023 um 14:32 schrieb Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps: On 08/09/2023 18:29, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote: Hi folks, Thinking we could drop the ancient (8 years) orphaned DJGPP 32-bit (by definition) packages; they are older than djgpp current, never mind beta on gcc 13; from DJ's

[Attn Maintainer] json-c

2023-09-24 Thread Daisuke Fujimura via Cygwin-apps
Hi, I previously reported that json-c.pc seems incorrect. - https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2023-August/254350.html The modified version of json-c.cygport and its CI results are shown below. - cygport - https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/playground/commit/?id=42b2343c88e9ba85dd6895793

Re: Drop djgpp-{binutils,gcc-*,runtime} 32-bit packages

2023-09-24 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
On 08/09/2023 18:29, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote: Hi folks, Thinking we could drop the ancient (8 years) orphaned DJGPP 32-bit (by definition) packages; they are older than djgpp current, never mind beta on gcc 13; from DJ's latest Monthly Mini-FAQ summary: djdev-2.05 binutils-2.

Bonfire of the Packages

2023-09-24 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
Generally, we have a large number of old, unmaintained packages. The policy [1] has always been "Packages without an active maintainer may be pulled from the distribution.", but not actively enforced (in fact prior to 2022, this used to say "are pulled", but I moderated the statement, just t