[ITP] cppcheck

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Wed Jul 29 02:26:00 GMT 2009


On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:38:32AM -0400, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>> ?GTG, and I was just about to upload it, when I realised:
>>
>>>> I'm not sure if this needs a vote or not, since it is included in Debian:
>>>>
>>>> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/cppcheck
>>
>> ?Argh. ?Unstable doesn't count; from http://cygwin.com/setup.html#submitting:
>>
>>> # If the new package is a well-known program already included in a major
>>> Linux distribution (e.g. Debian, Fedora, SuSE) please include the URL of the
>>> package page. Note that "development", "test", and "unstable" packages are not
>>> eligible for this rule.
>>>
>>> # If the package is not included in any major Linux distro it must receive
>>> five positive votes from other package mantainers in order to be accepted.
>
>Hrmm...  I believe it may be in Fedora:
>
>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/cppcheck
>
>It's status is 'Approved' but creation date states 'Not yet
>implemented' so I don't know what that means.

It means that we don't have to go through the vote.  Let's just go ahead
and upload it.

I can't do that right now, though, so I'd appreciate it if someone else
would.

cgf



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