Inactive maintainer package orphaning

[Mark Geisert]

On 2/15/2025 6:42 AM, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> I've orphaned the following packages:
> 
> chere                                        Dave Kilroy
> ELFIO                                        Serge Lamikhov-Center
> task                                         Federico Hernandez
> tftp                                         Gernot Hillier
> 
> The maintainers of which have been inactive for a long time, and didn't 
> respond to my attempts to contact them.
> 
> Consequently, these maintainers' (long unused) ssh keys are also disabled.

In the interest of helping with the Cygwin ecosystem, I'm willing to 
take on these four packages.  Even if I can't update them immediately 
I'm sure to be more responsive on the mailing lists than the current 
maintainers.  I'll find some tuits around here somewhere.

> These packages are all leaves in the dependency tree, and so maybe also 
> candidates for removal:
> 
> chere ('Cygwin Prompt Here') is probably still used and useful, but 
> could probably benefit from some love and better integration (as 
> discussed at [1], nearly a year ago now, sigh...)
> 
> [1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-February/255441.html
> 
> tftpd is potentially useful for booting really dumb pieces of hardware, 
> but the version we provide is so old, this may be a disservice.
> 
> ELFIO (which should perhaps be named elfio-devel) is a header-only 
> library, so may be build-time dependency of other packages. 
> Unfortunately that information is not recorded for many older packages.
> My brief searches haven't discovered any users of it.

Appreciate the current status notes.  I would make use of each in turn. 
I have a special interest with 'task': I'd like to provide a current 
version on Cygwin in spite of its upstream recommending WSL over Cygwin. 
  We'll see.
HTH,

..mark