Please upload xmon-1.5.6-1 (new package)

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Sat Jun 11 23:46:00 GMT 2005


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 12:35:50PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:32:40AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:44:09PM -0700, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>>>
>>>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:38:36AM -0700, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 02:14:16AM -0700, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>I packaged the xmon program today (and used it extensively, so I know 
>>>>>>>>it works) for Cygwin.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I took the liberty of checking Debian and see that this is a standard
>>>>>>>package there, so there is no need to vote on this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thanks, I wasn't sure what the current rules were.  Glad it was in Debian.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>But, where's the setup.hint file?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Uhh... I hope I'm not misunderstanding the question... but, in the 
>>>>>>original email?!?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>http://homer.starnet.com/~hunth/cygwin/release/X11/xmon/setup.hint
>>>>>>>7ab56809ff065a5e46693f49a1099f84 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>From http://cygwin.com/setup.html
>>>>>
>>>>>Submitting a package
>>>>>
>>>>>	So you've got a package you want to submit.  Follow the following
>>>>>	checklist before emailing cygwin-apps@cygwin.com and you'll almost
>>>>>	certainly save time.
>>>>>
>>>>>	1.  Propose on cygwin-apps that you are interested in becoming a
>>>>>	package maintainer for package foo.  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.
>>>>>
>>>>>	2.  If this is a new package, *post a complete setup.hint file as 
>>>>>	part
>>>>>	of your proposal*.  Include this file in the text of your message so
>>>>>	that it can be commented on.  Do not submit it as an attachment.
>>>>
>>>>Are we posting or quoting rules?
>>>>
>>>>I have no interest in pedantics.
>>>
>>>You asked why I was asking about the setup.hint file.  This is why.
>>>
>>>I didn't see any obvious reason why I should refrain from pointing out
>>>the rules to you since I and others do that whenever someone sends an
>>>incomplete ITP here.
>>
>>sdesc: "An interactive X protocol monitor"
>>ldesc: "Xmon interactively monitors the byte-stream connections between an X
>>server and a number of X clients.  Xmon recognises all requests,
>>events, errors and replies sent between the clients and the server
>>which are part of the core X protocol.  The contents of these messages
>>are displayed on standard output at a user settable degree of detail
> 
>>from none to every bit and byte."
> 
>>category: X11
>>requires: cygwin xorg-x11-bin-dlls
>>
>>There is no need to include "requires: cygwin".  That's a given.
> 
> 
> Nope.  Nevermind.  I was wrong.  I thought upset adds this automatically but it
> doesn't.
> 
> I've uploaded this package.

Thanks.  Sending announcement now.

Harold



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