Fwd: Updating cygwin "libnfs" package ?

Fwd: Updating cygwin "libnfs" package ?

[Roland Mainz]

Hi!

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I'd like to take ownership of the Cygwin "libnfs" package (see email
below, the package is old and has bugs related to NFSv4.*) ...
... how do we proceed ? Should I send a patch here, or what do I have to do ?

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Bye,
Roland

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
Date: Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: Updating cygwin "libnfs" package ?
To: Roland Mainz <roland.mainz@nrubsig.org>, <cygwin@cygwin.com>


On 3/22/2024 9:49 AM, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote:
> Hi!
>
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>
> Is it possible to update the Cygwin "libnfs" package, please ?
>
> The current Cygwin "libnfs" version is rather old (per
> https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/libnfs/log/

If you look near the upper right corner of that page, you'll see
"ORPHANED".  See also

   https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/libnfs-src.html .

That means there is no maintainer.  So someone needs to volunteer to
maintain it before it will get updated.  Are you interested in doing
this?  If so, start at

   https://cygwin.com/packages.html

and ask for help on the cygwin-apps mailing list if you run into problems.

Ken

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Re: Fwd: Updating cygwin "libnfs" package ?

[Jon Turney]

On 22/03/2024 16:08, Roland Mainz via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> ----
> 
> I'd like to take ownership of the Cygwin "libnfs" package (see email
> below, the package is old and has bugs related to NFSv4.*) ...
> ... how do we proceed ? Should I send a patch here, or what do I have to do ?

[1] should explain this (could probably be improved).

A patch against the packaging repo would be a good place to start.

[1] https://cygwin.com/packaging-contributors-guide.html#adopt