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On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 03:49:13PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:19:58AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
>>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:49:02PM +1000, Stephen Grant Brown wrote:
>
>>>>>I am unable to use dselect for the inspection of packages in the Debian
>>>>>distribution.
>
>>>>Ok.  Unless someone steps forward who is willing to maintain dpkg, it
>>>>will be removed from the distribution in a few days.
>
>>>Is there any useful functionality actually provided by having dpkg for
>>>Cygwin?  If there is I'll have a go, but if it's just a toy that
>>>happens to compile, but you can't actually do anything useful with, I
>>>don't see the point.
>
>>Um.  That would be the kind of thing that a maintainer would know the
>>answer to wouldn't it?
>
>I know what the program _does_ - I just don't see how what it does can
>be useful, when no one is producing .deb format packages for Cygwin.

Without a maintainer (Larry's response not withstanding), we don't have
anyone who can answer the question about dselect definitively.  Your
asking if it is any good just illustrates the problem.

If someone wants to be the maintainer, they will have to do some
research.

>(For that matter, the same argument applies to 'rpm' - it's present in
>the Cygwin archive, but can anyone actually use it for anything useful,
>since there are no .rpm format packages for Cygwin?)

My company uses cygwin rpms all of the time.  I'm actually the rpm
maintainer although I haven't made a new release in a long time.

cgf

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