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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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