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Re: [ITP] amanda 3.3.2
On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 03:58:25PM +1000, Mark O'Keefe wrote:
>
>On 06/09/2012, at 12:03 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>
>> On 9/5/2012 12:19 AM, Mark O'Keefe wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I had tried posting this to the cygwin-apps list, but it would appear
>>> that maybe I can't do that. So I'll post it hear for comment.
>>
>> From <http://cygwin.com/lists.html>:
>>
>>cygwin-apps: a subscriber-only list for discussing packaging issues
>>regarding applications that are distributed with the Cygwin DLL. If
>>you are maintaining or volunteering to maintain one of the packages
>>that is distributed with the Cygwin net releases you should be
>>subscribed to this list.
>
>From <http://cygwin.com/setup.html#submitting>
>
>Submitting a new package:
>So you've got a package you want to submit. Follow the following
>checklist before emailing the cygwin-apps mailing list and you'll
>almost certainly save time.
>
>Propose on the cygwin-apps mailing list that you are interested in
>becoming a package maintainer for package "foo" using a subject like
>"[ITP] foo 0.10". Some packages cannot be distributed via Cygwin's
>setup due to vendor licence limitations. Other packages may not be
>appropriate for Cygwin. This step will save time if, for some reason,
>we cannot accept the package.
>
>So, you might appreciate why I was confused thinking that I should
>email the cygwin-apps list. I read (later) that it was a
>subscriber-only list and emailed to this list instead. I'm guessing
>that there might need to be some updates to the website to reflect the
>correct process.
I'm not sure what your confusion is but both of the above tell you to
send intent-to-package announcements to cygwin-apps. One says "propose
on the cygwin-apps mailing list". The other says for "maintaining or
*volunteering to maintain*".
cgf
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