From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: Federico Kircheis <federico.kircheis@gmail.com>,
"cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: [ITP] dumpasn1
Date: Sun, 15 May 2022 16:18:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6d937a0e-8c11-cdbe-d902-911320007e83@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8CF1DBFE-66B9-4DC2-AC26-15EC6574352B@gmail.com>
On 14/05/2022 15:58, Federico Kircheis wrote:
> On 14 May 2022 13:24:08 UTC, Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
>> On 11/05/2022 20:20, Federico Kircheis wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello to everyone,
>>>
>>> I'm interested in becoming a package maintainer for the program dumpasn1.
>>> (see https://packages.debian.org/sid/dumpasn1 and https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/)
>>>
>>> It would be a new package for the cygwin distribution, but it is already
>>> distributed on different systems, like Arch, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE,
>>> Gentoo and many others
>>>
>>> .hint and .cygport files are attached
>>>
>>> As the name implies, it is a program for dumping data encoded using the ASN.1 encoding rules
>>
>> Thanks. I added this to your authorized packages.
>>
>> A few small comments on the cygport
>>
>>> HOMEPAGE="https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/"
>>> SRC_URI="http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/dumpasn1/dumpasn1_${VERSION}.orig.tar.gz"
>>
>> I'm not sure that 'https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/dumpasn1.c' isn't the correct SRC_URI.
>>
>> The debian packaging contains a manpage, which it might be useful to incorporate.
>>
>>> BUILD_REQUIRES=""
>>> REQUIRES=""
>>>
>>> PKG_NAMES="dumpasn1"
>>
>> None of these are necessary, I think.
>
> I've used the debian package ad it is a package that contains everything for creating the cygwin package (source+config), and provides a versioned source.
>
> The URL you suggested is only the source file, and to be honest I do not know how to write the corresponding cygport file.
> It also does not seem to be versioned.
>
> Thus I would prefer to use the Debian source if it is not an issue.
Fair enough.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-15 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-11 19:20 Federico Kircheis
2022-05-14 13:24 ` Jon Turney
2022-05-14 14:58 ` Federico Kircheis
2022-05-15 15:18 ` Jon Turney [this message]
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