From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: "cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: cygwin-pkg-maint enhancements
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 12:06:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d51dcaa9-947c-7aaa-b16f-c63cc4037d35@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZIwvqj8GgBlIyGUd@calimero.vinschen.de>
On 16/06/2023 10:47, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On Jun 11 19:01, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>
>> I've deployed an update to calm which makes a few small improvements to the
>> way cygwin-pkg-maint is handled:
>>
>> * Lines starting with a '#' are now ignored as a comment
>>
>> * There's now a simple facility for grouping packages:
>>
>> Define a group with a line starting with '@', e.g.:
>>
>> @upstream_project Maintainer1/Maintainer2
>>
>> Then @upstream_project can used in a package's maintainer list, as a
>> reference to that list of maintainers.
>
> That's a great change. Thanks!
>
> Would adding glob patterns help, too? Kind of like
>
> aspell
> aspell-*
>
Well, maybe.
That's a more complex change, as the code just does a simple lookup by
source package name at the moment.
It would also introduce the possibility for ambiguity. e.g. What is the
following intended to mean?
aspell-* Aye Person
aspell-gibberish Anne Other
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-18 11:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-11 18:01 Jon Turney
2023-06-16 9:47 ` Corinna Vinschen
2023-06-18 11:06 ` Jon Turney [this message]
2023-06-19 8:35 ` Corinna Vinschen
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