[NMU] inkscape 0.92.3-2 (Test)

[Brian Inglis]

On 2023-12-06 10:19, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 2023-12-05 06:07, Jon Turney wrote:
>> On 03/12/2023 17:50, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> On 2023-12-03 08:33, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>>> On 01/12/2023 09:17, Mark Geisert via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>>>>> If you have ideas about how to make things work better, I'm all ears.
>>>>>> For the moment, I tweaked things to let your upload through.
> 
>>>>> Thanks Jon.  I have only seen a handful of NMUs go by and it didn't occur 
>>>>> to me that those doing them were explicitly allowed to.
>>>>> ISTM the process works fine as it is.  If I happen to have a future itch to 
>>>>> do an NMU should I handle it as I did this one?  Or say something on 
>>>>> cygwin-apps beforehand?  I don't expect it will be often.  I'm totally fine 
>>>>> not being on the "trusted" list for this type of thing.
> 
>>>> If you ask in advance, that's possibly slightly less work for me, but either 
>>>> is fine really.
>>>> Maybe I should make things so that all maintainers can NMU orphaned 
>>>> packages. That seems reasonable I guess?
> 
>>> Maybe Unmaintained except Base (i.e. alternatives crypto-policies) or 
>>> "toolchain" defined as cygport and cygwin deps and build deps (i.e. bzip2 
>>> cocom docbook git-archive-all robodoc); maybe also all their deps and build 
>>> deps, even Devel and Libs?
> 
>> I was kind of hoping that base packages (and "dependencies of packages in base 
>> which aren't in base themselves") aren't unmaintained, but obviously that was 
>> being optimistic...
> 
> I thought I should take a peek in hopes too, but just in case, not being 
> paranoid /much/, but like to have a bigger fan ready just in case! ;^>
> 
> Maybe we should work on publishing package adoption priority lists e.g.
> 
> 1 Base 1.1 crypto-policies 1.2 alternatives
> 2 Build 1.1 cocom (now dino) 1.2 git-archive-all 1.3 robodoc 1.4 bzip2
>      1.5 docbook... [lots of Unmaintained pkgs and deps]
   2 Build 2.1 cocom (now dino) 2.2 git-archive-all 2.3 robodoc 2.4 bzip2
        2.5 docbook... [lots of Unmaintained pkgs and deps]
> 3 Base direct deps
   3 Base direct deps 3.1 ...
> 4 Build direct deps
   4 Build direct deps 4.1 ...
> 5 Base indirect deps
   5 Base indirect deps 5.1 ...
> 6 Build indirect deps
   6 Build indirect deps 6.1 ...

> I stopped once I looked at docbook...sob...! ;^>

[Getting coffee now!]

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

La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter  not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer     but when there is no more to cut
                                 -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry