ITP: tack-1.06-1

ITP: tack-1.06-1

[Charles Wilson]

The tack program is a diagnostic that is designed to create and verify
the correctness of terminfo's.  This program can be used to create new
terminal descriptions that are not included in the standard terminfo
database.

tack was distributed as part of the ncurses package until (upstream)
5.7, when it was spun out into its own package. Since I have updated
cygwin's ncurses package(s) to 5.7, the new versions are "deficient"
compared to the old ones.  This package remedies that.

tack is part of Fedora 7, 8, 9, and 10:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=5002


================ setup.hint ==================
category: Utils
requires: cygwin libncurses8
sdesc: "Utility for creating and verifying termi
ldesc: "The tack program is a diagnostic that is
create and verify the correctness of terminfo's.
can be used to create new terminal descriptions
included in the standard terminfo database."
================ setup.hint ==================

cygwin-1.5:
http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/tack-1.06-1-src.tar.bz2
http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/tack-1.06-1.tar.bz2

cygwin-1.7:
http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/tack-1.06-10-src.tar.bz2
http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/tack-1.06-10.tar.bz2

OK to upload?

--
Chuck

Re: ITP: tack-1.06-1

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:10:17PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>The tack program is a diagnostic that is designed to create and verify
>the correctness of terminfo's.  This program can be used to create new
>terminal descriptions that are not included in the standard terminfo
>database.
>
>tack was distributed as part of the ncurses package until (upstream)
>5.7, when it was spun out into its own package. Since I have updated
>cygwin's ncurses package(s) to 5.7, the new versions are "deficient"
>compared to the old ones.  This package remedies that.
>
>tack is part of Fedora 7, 8, 9, and 10:
>http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=5002
>
>
>================ setup.hint ==================
>category: Utils
>requires: cygwin libncurses8
>sdesc: "Utility for creating and verifying termi
>ldesc: "The tack program is a diagnostic that is
>create and verify the correctness of terminfo's.
>can be used to create new terminal descriptions
>included in the standard terminfo database."
>================ setup.hint ==================
>
>cygwin-1.5:
>http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/tack-1.06-1-src.tar.bz2
>http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/tack-1.06-1.tar.bz2
>
>cygwin-1.7:
>http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/tack-1.06-10-src.tar.bz2
>http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/tack-1.06-10.tar.bz2
>
>OK to upload?

Sure.  If we can't trust you to know the drill by now then the Cygwin
project is in seriously bad shape.

cgf

Re: ITP: tack-1.06-1

[Charles Wilson]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> ================ setup.hint ==================
>> category: Utils
>> requires: cygwin libncurses8
>> sdesc: "Utility for creating and verifying termi
>> ldesc: "The tack program is a diagnostic that is
>> create and verify the correctness of terminfo's.
>> can be used to create new terminal descriptions
>> included in the standard terminfo database."
>> ================ setup.hint ==================

> Sure.  If we can't trust you to know the drill by now then the Cygwin
> project is in seriously bad shape.

Well, except "cut and paste" appears to be to difficult for little ol'
me. <g>  The actual setup.hint:

================ setup.hint ==================
category: Utils
requires: cygwin libncurses8
sdesc: "Utility for creating and verifying terminfo descriptions"
ldesc: "The tack program is a diagnostic that is designed to
create and verify the correctness of terminfo's.  This program
can be used to create new terminal descriptions that are not
included in the standard terminfo database."
================ setup.hint ==================

Uploading now...

--
Chuck

Re: ITP: tack-1.06-1

[Dave Korn]

Charles Wilson wrote:

> create and verify the correctness of terminfo's.  This program
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  Superfluous "grocer's apostrophe" :)

    cheers,
      DaveK

Re: ITP: tack-1.06-1

[Charles Wilson]

Dave Korn wrote:
>> create and verify the correctness of terminfo's.  This program
>                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   Superfluous "grocer's apostrophe" :)

Cut-n-paste, right from tack-1.06/README. Take it up with T.E.Dickey. <g>

--
Chuck

Re: ITP: tack-1.06-1

[Mark Harig]

Charles Wilson wrote:
> cygwin-1.5:
> http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/tack-1.06-1-src.tar.bz2
> http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/tack-1.06-1.tar.bz2
>
>   
Has the correct version of 'tack' been built and packaged?  It appears 
that version 1.05
was built and packaged as version 1.06-1.

$ cygcheck -c tack
Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version        Status
tack                 1.06-1         OK

$ tack -V
tack version 1.05
Copyright (C) 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Tack comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute copies of Tack under the terms of the
GNU General Public License.  For more information about
these matters, see the file named COPYING.

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