Inactive maintainer package orphaning (part 2)

Mark Geisert mark@maxrnd.com
Tue Mar 25 05:51:11 GMT 2025


Hi Jon,

On 3/23/2025 9:14 AM, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> 
> I've orphaned the following packages:
> 
> chicken                                      Christian Kellermann
> iperf                                        Battu Kaushik
> libfakesu                                    Daniel Boland
> libnfc                                       Marcos Vives Del Sol
> procmail                                     Daniel Boland
> sendmail                                     Daniel Boland
> varnish                                      Jorge Diaz
> 
> The maintainers of which have been inactive for a long time (no activity 
> since 2015), and didn't respond to my attempts to contact them.
> 
> Consequently, these maintainers' (long unused) ssh keys are also disabled.
> 
> Again, these packages are all leaves in the dependency tree, and so 
> maybe also candidates for removal.

I'm willing to take on iperf, libfakesu, procmail, and sendmail.

The latter two have not advanced much in versions despite the years 
involved.  libfakesu is required for both of them.  iperf looks more 
interesting to me; updating it might give me some experience to use to 
finish my long-dormant port of iozone to Cygwin.
HTH & Regards,

..mark


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