From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ej1-x641.google.com (mail-ej1-x641.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::641]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D56BE3858D34 for ; Thu, 21 May 2020 10:16:07 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org D56BE3858D34 Received: by mail-ej1-x641.google.com with SMTP id yc10so8060435ejb.12 for ; Thu, 21 May 2020 03:16:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:reply-to:from:message-id :date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=xIgI2saoA2Ohbt39zvQzqh7LtdgNm+ov7l3jQNE5+HE=; b=CgwOwljWyDchQWgzAhes/aWvjfZVk2sFjCTofTd4z6ipySJl7av/QfkoPZ2uRMHH91 DySq0WqFJ2gGqI89VJBbY2q99yN5ge3aHQQXrtkaPFMotgQ+Z3nbRoLtXWN14edUJi12 MCeF9JLZ6PCk8n6PCEgFqpPzG3pkcuEnGpKE7EdiQjOrtLJdFzJSkBINZaBxxVgMsyv5 OTOSv0lbF03vs2csBhqrIpsV+DHkgXOU436Ev372na0/NOVE5mx5feyPrspI/k4MNqx9 d/CzrGWRgem/kJAyDnwlbA6s0FPRwDgsrJTMst15bLbOBIh/uq8EkvjGUCV+EWfRnNsT hL8w== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532Nbt5YGdgZ1gKtQeTeluHUdSFHrvFUCA9Eo/gYAcYhcPh2zCBu IJxW7K99gSAwmM/uvPbfe1VuewlFXAE= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJzVsteo5Ksk/uxfmOFqOXE0Iqn4B7HYdXr0jUHq6TNg2vO7MangGkFa3byP/aVzvyebkfpd1w== X-Received: by 2002:a17:906:8556:: with SMTP id h22mr2885196ejy.535.1590056166510; Thu, 21 May 2020 03:16:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?IPv6:2003:cc:9f3c:6a75:15e8:c26d:2b9a:7994? (p200300cc9f3c6a7515e8c26d2b9a7994.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [2003:cc:9f3c:6a75:15e8:c26d:2b9a:7994]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id af15sm4382500ejc.89.2020.05.21.03.16.05 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 21 May 2020 03:16:05 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Update of packages by non-maintainer To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20200520.191829.1263138216786896730.yasu@utahime.org> <9098d0a3-a9ef-0c67-5e9f-af9bc5227bff@SystematicSw.ab.ca> <20200521.134708.978300984572490822.yasu@utahime.org> Reply-To: "cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 12:16:05 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200521.134708.978300984572490822.yasu@utahime.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: it Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, DKIM_VALID_EF, FREEMAIL_FROM, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 10:16:09 -0000 On 21.05.2020 06:47, Yasuhiro KIMURA wrote: > From: Brian Inglis > Subject: Re: Update of packages by non-maintainer > Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 08:32:59 -0600 > >> You should discuss changes and intent on cygwin list, post patches on >> cygwin-apps list. > > Thank you for reply. My first candidate is anthy. Original anthy > projet has been inactive since 2009. But Debian forked it and made > improvement and enhancement. So I would like to switch codebase to > that of Debian. I just checked out cygwin anthy git repository and > started working but I have one question. the anthy pkg maintainer, Yaakov, is reducing his activity and if you are interested you can take over. > After project fork by Debian, release version scheme has changed. > While latest version from original project (and one used by cygwin > package) is "9100h", latest one from Debian is "0.4". That is, version > number decreses if I chage codebase to Debian. I know that some > packaging systems assume version number basically increases and that > decrement causes package upgrade failure. So I would like to know if > it also apply to Cygwin. And if it does then I also would like to know > how it should be handled. currently we have no solution. There were in the past discussion to overcome such problem but they are not yet implemented. We can follow these two points on the cygwin-apps mailing list, please subscribe to it. > Best Regards. > > --- > Yasuhiro KIMURA Regards Marco