X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:18:38 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: distro "apache2" will not start Message-ID: <20100917181838.GA22223@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4C92B2EF DOT 9060002 AT columbus DOT rr DOT com> <20100917073705 DOT GH15121 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:43:42AM +0200, Al wrote: >> The apache2 package is orphaned for this long period of time already. >> Maybe it's time to pull it from the distro, unless somebody would >> like to take over maintainership. >> > >There is an oss freak in Thuringia, currently working out the idea of >a common patch repository to bring the DRY principle to patch >maintenance and to lower the work for each Distro. I think the idea is >interesting at least and could help in cases like this. > >http://www.metux.de/download/oss-qm/normalized_repository.pdf A pdf is not going to cause a maintainer to materialize. Especially when the pdf is unloadable. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple