Packaging Conundrum

[James R. Phillips]

Hi,

Upstream for the newly added epstool package (Russell Lang) has asked via
private email whether the CYGWIN-PATCHES subdir of a cygwin source package
would really be required, if he modified the package makefile to
include make targets for cygwin source and binary distributions.  In essence,
the question is whether a patches subdir is required if there really are no
patches required to build either the source or the binary distribution.

My guess is that such a subdir should always exist, containing at a minimum the
setup.hint file.  But I'm not really certain.

Anyone have the answer for this?

Thanks,

James R. Phillips