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On Jan 20 14:30, Yaakov S wrote:
> On 20/01/2010 10:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >It would be nice if people who are interested in becoming package
> >maintainer would pick up the occasional package.  Here's the current
> >list of orphaned packages:
> 
> >    docbook-xml
> >    docbook-xsl
> >    openjade
> >    opensp
> 
> These are all part of Ports' DocBook system, which I (was)
> volunteered to ITP about two weeks ago; I just uploaded a minor
> bugfix yesterday, so I should be able to proceed with that ITP.

Good news!

> >    boost
> >    e2fsimage
> >    e2fsprogs
> >    links
> >    ocaml
> >    plotutils
> 
> There are already Ports packages for these, but see here wrt
> potential issues with the e2fsprogs and ocaml packages:
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.ports.general/736

Interesting.  Especially the part about cmake.  Did you try to convince
Bill that WIN32 is not a good idea for the Cygwin distro package?


Corinna

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