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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 21:01:29 +0100
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Subject: Re: Tool for listing sparse file layout
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On Mar  7 15:43, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 at 13:24, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> > Stop telling us what we're supposed to do for you.  It's pretty
> > annoying how you're exerting group pressure with (per last counting)
> > five accounts to let us do your bidding on the Cygwin mailing list.
> 
> Apologies. This was not intended.

It's actually hard to see how this was not intended if one of your guys
starts a thread and you and (for instance) Roland chime in in a really
pushy way.

> Just the bigger picture:
> [...]

We all have a day job as well!

> cygutils-extra

There is no cygutils-extra package either.

> > If you want that package in the
> > distro, do it yourself and become Cygwin package maintainer:
> >
> > https://cygwin.com/packages.html
> 
> Is it wise to put a simple utility in a separate package?

Yes.  Even simple utilities should have a (willing) maintainer.  You can
ask the maintainer of the cygutils package if he's willing to maintain
this additional tool, but it's just as well you keep it under your own
(or Roland's, being the developer) control.

The usual packaging process applies:

  https://cygwin.com/packaging-contributors-guide.html


Corinna

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