Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-01 [emacs and ghostscript need rebuild]

[Harold L Hunt II]

Daniel Reed wrote:

> emacs                   Joe Buehler             !!! stale version (freshmeat lists 21.3; we only have 21.2) !!! last updated 2003-01-24
> emacs-el                Joe Buehler             !!! last updated 2003-01-24
> emacs-X11               Joe Buehler             !!! last updated 2003-01-24

> ghostscript             Dario Alcocer           !!! last updated 2002-10-29
>   ghostscript-base      Dario Alcocer           !!! last updated 2002-10-29
>   ghostscript-x11       Dario Alcocer           !!! last updated 2002-10-29

These packages were built before the XFree86-*-4.3.0-* releases (around 
July), which means that they still link to the old-style shared library 
files, which means that they require the XFree86-lib-compat package in 
order to function at all.  You can't even launch emacs in console mode 
if you have emacs-X11 installed but not XFree86-lib-compat.

It isn't important that the packages be updated to a more recent 
upstream version, just that they be rebuilt against Cygwin 1.5.3+ and 
XFree86-prog-4.3.0-10+.

The last message from Joe on cygwin-apps seems to be around 2003-09-16.

The last message from Dario Alcocer on cygwin-apps seems to be around 
2003-05-30.

In the interests of having all Cygwin/X packages up-to-date, should we 
prod the maintainers into rebuilding their packages?  I can always try a 
rebuild of the current source packages as-is and post them if they build 
properly.

Comments?

Harold