Re: [ITA] ncompress 5.0

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

On 26/01/2024 14:04, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Noticed mention of ncompress used, saw it was unmaintained, occasionally 
> use it for old sources, although it appears that gzip also decompresses 
> compress .Z, pack .z, and zip single file formats.
> 
> Mike F/vapier has migrated ncompress from SF to Github and updated it.
> It is available in Fedora up to date.
> I updated the current build URIs to current GH and Fedora, rebuilt 
> current thru latest versions with patch updates, both locally and on GH 
> scallywag, and got the tests working, so I would like to adopt ncompress 
> and provide the upgrade.
> 
> If accepted, I will follow up patches with current developer.
> 
[...]
> 
> Cygport and Patch Updates:
> 
>      https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/ncompress/?h=playground
> 

Thanks. Looks good.

Can you rebase your changes on top of the git history in main/master?

> FEDORA=http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/$NAME.git/plain
> FEDORA=https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ncompress/raw/f39/f

Obviously the first one here is redundant

#       $FEDORA/$NAME-4.2.4.4-filenamelen.patch
#       $FEDORA/$NAME-4.2.4.4-silence-gcc.patch
#       $FEDORA/$NAME-4.2.4.4-make.patch
#       $FEDORA/$NAME-4.2.4.4-2GB.patch
#       $FEDORA/$NAME-4.2.4.4-endians.patch
#       $FEDORA/$NAME-4.2.4.4-memmove.patch
#       $FEDORA/$NAME-4.2.4.4-lfs.patch
#       $NAME-4.2.4.5-lfs.patch
#       $NAME-4.2.4.6-lfs.patch
#       ncompress-4.2.4.5-runtests-sh-run-from-build-dir.patch

This doesn't seem to have any value, especially as it's in the history...


I added this to your packages.