[ITA] cygutils

[Mark Geisert]

On Mon, 16 Nov 2015, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Packaging looks good.  Just one nit:  While this is as Chuck did it way
> back when, I think the files under /usr/share/doc should go into the
> base cygutils package, rather than the cygutils-extra package, i.e.
>
>  usr/share/doc/cygutils/AUTHORS
>  usr/share/doc/cygutils/ChangeLog
>  usr/share/doc/cygutils/COPYING
>  usr/share/doc/cygutils/HOW-TO-CONTRIBUTE
>  usr/share/doc/cygutils/licenses/
>  usr/share/doc/cygutils/licenses/COPYING.BSD-no-advert
>  usr/share/doc/cygutils/licenses/COPYING.GPLv2
>  usr/share/doc/cygutils/licenses/COPYING.GPLv3
>  usr/share/doc/cygutils/NEWS
>  usr/share/doc/cygutils/PROGLIST
>  usr/share/doc/cygutils/README
>  usr/share/doc/cygutils/TODO
>
> should be in the cygutils package, while
>
>  usr/share/doc/cygutils/cygicons/
>  usr/share/doc/cygutils/cygicons/README
>  usr/share/doc/cygutils/lpr/
>  usr/share/doc/cygutils/lpr/README
>
> should stay in cygutils-extra.
>
> That's a minor point and at your discretion, otherwise GTG.

I agree and have adjusted the packaging as you suggested.

>> Something I don't understand yet is why, when using this cygutils.cygport,
>> some cygport commands download the source from sourceware via git, while
>> other commands seem to want the .tar.bz2 file.  The cygutils.cygport is
>> possibly not completely right yet.
>
> You have both, a SRC_URI and a GIT_URI.  This might confuse cygport.
> Drop the SRC_URI and only keep GIT_URI.

Even with that change 'cygport all' wants the .tar.bz2 file to be present.
  Maybe my mistake is assuming "all" means pull the source too?  If I do 
'cygport fetch all' it works like a charm using the Git tree, so I'll just 
keep doing that.

..mark