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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 00:38:49 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT cygnus DOT com>
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To: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: gdbm & cvs packages ready for official inclusion?
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"Charles S. Wilson" wrote:
> cvs can't work with packages that contain files whose names are illegal
> under MSWIN -- e.g. the eggdrop-1.5 package has a directory called
> 'AUX'. Reported by Travis Howell.
> 
> status: Ignore. cvs isn't the right place to fix this. If it is to be
> fixed, it should be done in the cygwin file access layer, not in cvs.
> (Personally, I thing the maintainer of eggdrop and other poorly-behaved
> packages should use names that are cross-platform compatible, but...)

Yep. For some reason the OpenSSH maintainers were willing to
change `aux.c' to `util.c'. No, the Cygwin patch itself in't
merged in yet...

Corinna

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