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Interested in becoming the maintainer for txt2man
- From: Shaddy Baddah <Shaddy_Baddah at hotmail dot com>
- To: Cygwin Apps <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 19:03:54 +0100
- Subject: Interested in becoming the maintainer for txt2man
- Reply-to: Cygwin Apps <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>, Shaddy Baddah <Shaddy_Baddah at hotmail dot com>
Hi,
I'm interested in submitting and maintaining Marc Vertes txt2man package
(http://mvertes.free.fr/). This package is also available in debian
(http://packages.debian.org/stable/text/txt2man).
It is a pretty small package, and I understand if it is considered to
small for a stand-alone package, however there is no harm in proposing
right (at least it worked on one occasion that I tried it ;-) ).
The txt2man setup.hint would look like this:
category: Text Doc
requires: bash gawk cygwin
sdesc: "Txt2man converts flat ASCII text to man page format"
ldesc: "Txt2man converts flat ASCII text to man page format. It is a
shell
script using gnu awk, that should run on any Unix like system.
"
Can I just pass one comment? The Cygwin Package Contributor's Guide
(http://cygwin.com/setup.html) is great. However, one area it does not
address, and I am aware that is because in general it is a un-documented
area, is how to test a package you have created. That is, to install a
stand-alone package, away from pointing Cygwin Setup at the mirrors.
Actually, I am assuming it is undocumented. Pointers are off course welcome.
Regards,
Shaddy