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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 19:13:43 -0400
From: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms AT netscape DOT net>
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To: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Popt package
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Charles Wilson wrote:

> Charles Wilson wrote:
>
>> I propose to transfer maintainership of the popt and libpopt0 
>> packages to Nicholas Wourms.  Nicholas has agreed to take over if the 
>> list agrees.  I think this is a good move for several reasons:
>>
>> 1) one less package for me to maintain (yippee!)
>>
>> 2) Nicholas is currently working with Gerritt and Harold to provide 
>> db2, db3, and db4 packages.  db, and popt, are both needed for a 
>> working setup-installable RPM package, which is Nicholas's focused 
>> goal right now.  So there's a certain synergy.
>>
>> 3) Nicholas has been working with the folks who maintain RPM -- and 
>> popt -- so he is in a better position than I to push bugfixes to popt 
>> upstream.
>>
>> If there are no objections, then today's popt-1.6.4-4 package will be 
>> the last one published by me; future ones will come from Nicholas.
>
>
>
> Hearing no objections, I hereby decree that Nicholas is the new popt 
> maintainer for cygwin.  Unless he backs out, of course.  Nicholas?
>
> --Chuck


Chuck,

Ready and willing ;-).

Cheers,
Nicholas