notice of package removal

notice of package removal

[Marco Atzeri]

Yaakov,
could you please advise when you are zapping orphaned packages from
the distribution ?

I justed noticed you zapped proftpd when at the same time
I was working to upgrade and build the 64 bit version.

No objection to remove packages; we have a lot in bad state
and some are dead upstream but it will be nice to be synchronized.

Regards
Marco

Re: notice of package removal

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 17:10 +0100, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> I justed noticed you zapped proftpd when at the same time
> I was working to upgrade and build the 64 bit version.
> 
> No objection to remove packages; we have a lot in bad state
> and some are dead upstream but it will be nice to be synchronized.

proftpd was orphaned last month[1], and I hadn't seen any indication
that there was interest in adopting it.  While I have been rebuilding
some of the simpler orphaned packages, proftpd didn't appear to qualify
after a quick look.  If you are interested in adopting, the old sources
should still be in the Cygwin Time Machine, although given how old they
were, Fedora's packaging[2] may be more useful.

[1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2015-01/msg00085.html
[2] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/proftpd.git/tree/

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Yaakov