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Re: HEADSUP: Packages with obsolete dependencies [GOLDSTARS]
- From: Andrew Schulman <schulman dot andrew at epa dot gov>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 14:30:48 -0500
- Subject: Re: HEADSUP: Packages with obsolete dependencies [GOLDSTARS]
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> On Mar 1 09:34, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 22:14 -0600, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> > > I just cleared out a huge number of obsolete and stale packages. More
> > > remain, but the following packages currently depend on one or more
> > > obsolete libraries (including the recently-obsoleted libpng15 and
> > > libgd2):
> >
> > I would like to personally thank the following maintainers for making so
> > much progress in cleaning up the distro by rebuilding their packages:
> >
> > Jari Aalto
> > Marco Atzeri
> > Ken Brown
> > David Rothenberger
> > Andrew Schulman
> > David Stacey
> > Jon Turney
> > Corinna Vinschen
> > Dr. Volker Zell
> >
> > Andrew, could you polish some gold stars for these maintainers?
>
> There's a Yaakov Selkowitz missing on the list, afaics ;)
My fingers are tired.
Seriously, for years I've been meaning to write a Perl script to automate
creation of all of that boilerplate. Real soon now.
Anyway, many gold stars awarded. http://cygwin.com/goldstars