Re: Fix for php

[Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>]

On 04/08/2020 15:08, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 7/21/2020 5:24 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> This is a follow-up to
>>
>>    https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2020-July/245623.html
>>
>> As I explained there, a patch applied to the Cygwin build causes php 
>> to often call mmap with MAP_FIXED, and some of these calls fail.  
>> Removing the relevant hunk of the patch fixes the reported problem, 
>> and I don't see any reason why that hunk should be needed.
>>
>> Obviously Yaakov had a reason for applying that hunk, and I'm guessing 
>> (hoping) that the reason is no longer applicable.
>>
>> Ideally, someone should ITA php and deal with this.  That person will 
>> not be me.   I don't use php and I know nothing about it.  If no one 
>> steps forward, I would be willing to do a one-time non-maintainer upload.
> 
> No one has stepped forward, and Yaakov hasn't responded to say why he 
> needed the problematic portion of the patch.  In view of the recent post 
> on the cygwin list
> 
>    https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2020-August/245752.html
> 
> I think I should probably go ahead with an NMU.  Any opinions?

As a practical matter, anyone who can change cygwin-pkg-maint could 
upload anything, after jumping through sufficient hoops.

(In the interest of making life easier for those people, calm doesn't 
usually require them to jump through those hoops (see [1]), allowing 
them to:

- upload orphaned packages
- push to any packaging repository

[1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2020-February/039819.html)

 > Jon, are you now the de facto packaging czar who can authorize this?

No, I don't think so.

My perspective is that, by virtue of having the necessary access and 
being trusted to use it sensibly, you are already authorized.

Thanks for looking into this issue.