patchutils package builds for review

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca
Sat Sep 11 02:25:51 GMT 2021


On 2021-09-08 12:59, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2021-08-11 14:21, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> On 10.08.2021 07:47, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>> Once again been looking over commonly used outdated packages I use 
>>> frequently which need upgraded and picked another few of Eric Blake's 
>>> I would like to request to co-maintain and upgrade as they are a few 
>>> years old.
>>> Attn: Eric Blake - advice, comments, concurrence or objections to my 
>>> co-maintaining the packages for bison dash grep gzip m4 readline sed?
>> added Eric in CC
>>> I am as usual dogfooding these, including rerunning the builds and 
>>> checks after local installs on both arches, but would appreciate any 
>>> advice about whether any or all of these should be test releases 
>>> (e.g. readline) before upgrading stable releases (given some recent 
>>> issues I caused) or other comments or suggestions.
>>>
>>> These builds have all been tested in the git-cygwin-package 
>>> playground repo; see:
>>>      https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?id=3148..3151,3154-3156
>>> commit links show the package and log links show the results.

>> I assume the previous answer from Eric is also valid here
>> so I added Brian as co-maintainer

> I would like to offer to co-maintain patchutils with Eric, as 
> maintenance restarted and a new release was available last year.
> The builds were tested in the git-cygwin-package playground repo; see:
 >	https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?id=3265
> commit links show the package and log links show the results.

The builds were tested in the git-cygwin-package patchutils repo; see:

https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?id=3281&srcpkg=patchutils

cygport and builds are available on Google drive:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PTI-3JilDwdZqf1S1evwHExhBvw9Oq94

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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