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<REDFACED>

Perhaps it's unnecessary to point out that this went to the wrong
reply address, 100% my fault, mostly harmless though.

Top posted because it seemed appropriate in this case.

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On November 30, 2022 at 22:43 bzs AT theworld DOT com (bzs AT theworld DOT com) wrote:
 > 
 > FWIW this has come up on World since more or less the beginning and
 > our policy thus far has been to consider an account name permanently
 > in use even if the underlying account has been closed.
 > 
 > One big problem here is that getting someone's email is enough to, for
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 > 
 > On November 27, 2022 at 15:16 adam AT dinwoodie DOT org (Adam Dinwoodie) wrote:
 >  > On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 01:03:27PM -0500, Mark Murawski wrote:
 >  > > Hi!
 >  > > 
 >  > > 
 >  > > What would the best way to go about getting an updated build of a specific
 >  > > package?
 >  > > 
 >  > > Right now I'm particularly interested in getting the latest version of
 >  > > terminator.
 >  > > 
 >  > > 
 >  > > Terminator Terminal Package:
 >  > > 
 >  > > Latest in Debian: 2.1.2-1
 >  > > 
 >  > > Latest in cygwin: 0.98-1
 >  > 
 >  > The maintainer for Terminator, Mike DePaulo, hasn't been active on the
 >  > Cygwin mailing lists for some time, as best I can tell; someone else was
 >  > asking similar questions at [0], for example.
 >  > 
 >  > [0]: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2022-March/251047.html
 >  > 
 >  > If you're interested in creating an updated package, either as a one-off
 >  > or by adopting the package and maintaining it going forward, I'd suggest
 >  > taking a look at the package maintainer instructions at [1], which
 >  > should hopefully give you pointers about how to get started with
 >  > building and packaging things for Cygwin.
 >  > 
 >  > [1]: https://cygwin.com/packages.html
 >  > 
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