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Akakima wrote:
> I have read somewhere that dash becamed recently the official shell of
> Ubuntu.
> 
> I wold like to know if it is ok for every body here.

  The general rule IIUC is that any package that is a standard part of Debian
qualifies for acceptance automatically, or anything that gets support from
five other package maintainers.

  We look forward to receiving your ITP on the cygwin-apps list and are all
around to help with packaging issues.  I'd recommend cygport myself, it works
very well indeed and makes the whole job a lot easier.

    cheers,
      DaveK

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