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From: Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Why /dev/kmsg was deleted from cygwin1.dll in git?
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2018 13:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180704222647.3d071f0cfceba30a2bc498a6@nifty.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180704105420.GN3111@calimero.vinschen.de>

Hi Corinna,

On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 12:54:20 +0200
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Inetutils is an orphaned package (and rightfully so).
> 
> If you think you need inetutils and especially syslogd, I suggest
> to take over maintainance of that package and tweak syslogd so it
> doesn't require /dev/kmsg anymore.

Are the following three packages still orphaned?
* inetutils
* rsh
* tcp_wrappers

If so, may I apply for a maintainer of these packages? Honestly, I
am not sure what the maintainer tasks are. I appreciate if you let
me know how I can learn about that.

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-04 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-03 19:44 Takashi Yano
2018-07-04 10:54 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-07-04 13:27   ` Takashi Yano [this message]
2018-07-04 14:58     ` Corinna Vinschen

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