Re: a2ps (Was Re: [UPDATE] Pending package status (06 May 2003))

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 01:56:55PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Wed, 7 May 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 10:49:10AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>> >David,
>> >
>> >FYI, the two comments below are really addressed to the general
>> >cygwin-apps audience, not you personally.
>> >
>> >Hmm, first off, the first link below (underlined) refers to aspell, rather
>> >than a2ps (Elfyn?).
>> >
>> >Secondly, I thought
>> ><http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-04/msg00273.html> (the fourth link)
>> >was a review (at least, it was written as such).
>> >If that's unacceptable, what constitutes a formal review?  Or do I simply
>> >need to update it for the latest posted release?
>>
>> That was certainly a formal enough review.  I didn't see any indication that
>> your issues were rectified; at least not in that thread.  The CRLF issue, at
>> least, deserves repackaging.
>> cgf
>
>I thought this wasn't an issue after reading Max's reply (quoted below).
>However, upon re-reading, it's not clear whether his comment refers both
>to the CRLF issue and the tar permissions issue, or just the tar one.
>
>Max, care to comment?

The CRLF issue is definitely something to address.  The packages should
not have text files in MS-DOS format.  While I'm sure that a few
packages have slipped by, this has certainly come up before.

cgf