[ITCoM] coreutils

[Jon Turney]

On 04/05/2022 08:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May  2 23:15, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Eric Blake no longer seems to have free time available for Cygwin package
>> upgrades, so I would like to offer to co-maintain coreutils and provide
>> upgrades as they are now five years old.

Done.  Thanks.

>> I would like to provide an upgrade to the final version 8 release 8.32,
>> initially as a TEST release, before working on the latest release 9.1.
>>
>> Package sources and archives are available online at:
>>
>> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1z_giKv3QIUbYvSNOiTtMMr644v-wOG_k
>>
>> and builds in playground from:
>>
>> https://cygwin.com/git-cygwin-packages/?p=git/cygwin-packages/playground.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/playground

Since it didn't already exists, I've created 
git://cygwin.com/git/cygwin-packages/coreutils.git using a new tool I've 
been working on ('ctm2git') which synthesizes a git history of the 
packaging for a package from the source package history in the CTM.

If that's not wanted, please let me know and I'll remove it.

>> https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?srcpkg=playground&status=&user=Brian+Inglis&id=4119
>>
>> https://github.com/cygwin/scallywag/actions/runs/2239985902
>>
>> The jobs appear to fail because some checks fail and return non-zero status.
>> Comparing checks between ciurrent and proposed releases and across
>> x86/_64/CI jobs, there appear to be fewer failures despite more tests.
>>
>> All feedback is encouraged and gratefully received.
> 
> Thanks for picking up coreutils, which is not only by name a core
> package.
> 
> I think this is at least worthy of a pink hippo ;)