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From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: "cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: [ITP] asr-manpages, funny-manpages
Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 14:15:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <92879051-f2eb-4559-93e3-4f9856b91738@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3a9d3bed-da3f-534f-ba55-6887f79e4b92@SystematicSw.ab.ca>

On 08/05/2022 18:49, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2022-05-08 09:15, Libor Ukropec wrote:
>> Dne 07.05.2022 v 20:52 Brian Inglis napsal(a):
>>> I would like to offer to package the following projects for Cygwin.
>>> They have been extensively tested on my own system for decades. ;^>
>>> They are offered on the major distros listed below, and the cygport 
>>> builds are available in my Google Drive folders.
> 
>> I haven't known them until now. Quite fun :)
>> Built and installed without any issue.
>>
>> If I can give the GTG, here it is..
> 
> Thanks - now I just need another four or so.
> 
>> BTW, I noted LICENSE, CYGWIN_MAINTAINER, UPSTREAM_MAINTAINER variables 
>> ... are they used/shown somewhere and is it a best practise to have 
>> them in the cygport script?
> 
> Something I think should be documented somewhere, are tracked in some 
> other distros package trackers, easier to add on adoption, and useful 
> when you want to submit bug reports upstream.
> Defining then as shell vars mean you can use them for searching or in 
> commands.

'LICENSE' probably should be required by cygport, containing a SPDX ID 
or license expression.

I'm not sure about 'CYGWIN_MAINTAINER', since we already track that 
information elsewhere.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-14 13:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-07 18:52 Brian Inglis
2022-05-08 15:15 ` Libor Ukropec
2022-05-08 17:49   ` Brian Inglis
2022-05-14 13:15     ` Jon Turney [this message]
2022-06-04 13:02       ` LICENSE (was Re: [ITP] asr-manpages, funny-manpages) Jon Turney
2022-06-04 16:20         ` Brian Inglis
2022-05-14 13:09 ` [ITP] asr-manpages, funny-manpages Jon Turney
2022-05-14 18:24   ` Brian Inglis
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-04-11 17:48 Brian Inglis

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