[ITA] robodoc

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Mar 14 17:48:00 GMT 2012


On Mar 14 17:03, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 13/03/2012 09:08, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Btw., per cygwin-pkg-maint we only have 9 orphaned packages.  I don't
> > believe that even one second, but these 9 packages are already orphaned
> > for a long time.  Shouldn't we remove them?  At least pdksh should go,
> > given that we have a modern replacement.  What about the rest?
> > 
> > Here's the list:
> > 
> >   Name		Orphaned  Replacement	Comment
> > 		since
> > 
> >   cramfs        2005
> >   distcc        2005			Builds with just a few minor tweaks.
> >   ioperm        2003			Dead upstream
> >   jgraph	2003			Dead upstream.  Linux jgraph is
> >   					another project.
> >   mtd		2005
> >   nfs-server 	2006
> >   pdksh		2003	  mksh
> >   ping		2005			Only works for Admin
> >   x2x		2004
> 
> fwiw, x2x hasn't been meaningfully updated upstream since then, probably still
> works, but I'm not sure if it's actually useful to anyone, so I'd tend to go
> for removal.

Done.


Thanks,
Corinna

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