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Re: cygwin-pkg-maint maintance


On Aug 14 23:29, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 14/08/2014 22:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Aug 14 22:28, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> 
> >>The build methods is maintainer choice.
> >>I use cygport but I don't see a reason to mandate it.
> >
> >Tiny correction:  New packages should use cygport.  We should really all
> >use the same packaging system.  After all, you don't use rpm files on
> >Debian or dpkg files on Fedora.
> 
> "should" is not "must". ;-)

Yes, that's me being vague, as usual.  We're going to convert the
"should" to a "must" for new packages, though, and an additional
"should" for updates to older packages.


Corinna

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