Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <06af01c16e2a$4f204040$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> From: "Robert Collins" To: "Markus Hoenicka" , "Jan Nieuwenhuizen" Cc: References: <007f01c16cde$5016de20$0200a8c0@lifelesswks><20011114124323.C24614@cygbert.vinschen.de><15348.5126.44000.631380@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Subject: Re: tetex-beta nitpicking [WAS: Re: no more package moratorium?] Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 10:07:32 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Nov 2001 23:05:42.0434 (UTC) FILETIME=[0CBAE020:01C16E2A] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Nieuwenhuizen" > Having a broken package that doesn't get fixed by it's maintainer is > arguably worse than having none at all. Maybe Cygwin should introduce > something like Debian's Non-maintainer uploads to address this problem? NMU's require a consistent and self documenting package management system - which we do not have today. Once we have that, then I've no problem with this concept. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/