Re: [ITCoM] coreutils

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

On May  2 23:15, Brian Inglis wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Eric Blake no longer seems to have free time available for Cygwin package
> upgrades, so I would like to offer to co-maintain coreutils and provide
> upgrades as they are now five years old.
> 
> I would like to provide an upgrade to the final version 8 release 8.32,
> initially as a TEST release, before working on the latest release 9.1.
> 
> Package sources and archives are available online at:
> 
> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1z_giKv3QIUbYvSNOiTtMMr644v-wOG_k
> 
> and builds in playground from:
> 
> https://cygwin.com/git-cygwin-packages/?p=git/cygwin-packages/playground.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/playground
> 
> https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?srcpkg=playground&status=&user=Brian+Inglis&id=4119
> 
> https://github.com/cygwin/scallywag/actions/runs/2239985902
> 
> The jobs appear to fail because some checks fail and return non-zero status.
> Comparing checks between ciurrent and proposed releases and across
> x86/_64/CI jobs, there appear to be fewer failures despite more tests.
> 
> All feedback is encouraged and gratefully received.

Thanks for picking up coreutils, which is not only by name a core
package.

I think this is at least worthy of a pink hippo ;)


Corinna