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Re: [ITP] hostname 3.12 (Attn: coreutils maintainer)

From: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat dot com>
To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:02:18 -0600
Subject: Re: [ITP] hostname 3.12 (Attn: coreutils maintainer)
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On 04/09/2013 02:55 PM, Christian Franke wrote:
> I would like to contribute the (Debian) Linux version of hostname(1) and
> would suggest to remove the GNU hostname command from coreutils package.

Makes sense to me, since upstream coreutils no longer installs
'hostname' by default.  I guess that means I really need to make some
time to fire up my windows machine and do a new coreutils build.  I'll
reply again when I have a package ready to go, so that we can coordinate
uploads (assuming no one else objects to the plan).

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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