ITP dos2unix 5.2.1-1

[Christian Franke]

Erwin Waterlander wrote:
> On 03/16/2011 04:49 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>> This is, again, something that you can't assume.  We don't know how
>> people use these tools.  So, if we do decide to make the switch, you
>> will have to be dedicated to being active in responding to problem
>> reports on the mailing list.  And, if people here think it's a good idea
>> to move this along, we'll need to get some feedback from the larger
>> community.
>
> I'm fine with that. I made this package, because a cygwin user asked 
> me. For me it's a small effort to maintain a cygwin package for this. 
> I am committed to solve problems. If the cygwin community doesn't want 
> to switch, that's fine too.

An alternative would be to modify cygutils+dos2unix packages such that 
the user can select the flavor of dos2unix/unix2dos commands with 
/usr/sbin/alternatives. If cygutils is the default if installed this 
should not break anything.

Christian