Re: [ITP] cppcheck

[Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:38:32AM -0400, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>>> ?GTG, and I was just about to upload it, when I realised:
>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure if this needs a vote or not, since it is included in Debian:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/cppcheck
>>> ?Argh. ?Unstable doesn't count; from http://cygwin.com/setup.html#submitting:
>>>
>>>> # If the new package is a well-known program already included in a major
>>>> Linux distribution (e.g. Debian, Fedora, SuSE) please include the URL of the
>>>> package page. Note that "development", "test", and "unstable" packages are not
>>>> eligible for this rule.
>>>>
>>>> # If the package is not included in any major Linux distro it must receive
>>>> five positive votes from other package mantainers in order to be accepted.
>> Hrmm...  I believe it may be in Fedora:
>>
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/cppcheck
>>
>> It's status is 'Approved' but creation date states 'Not yet
>> implemented' so I don't know what that means.
> 
> It means that we don't have to go through the vote.  Let's just go ahead
> and upload it.
> 
> I can't do that right now, though, so I'd appreciate it if someone else
> would.

  I happen to be on the graveyard shift tonight so I'll get on the case :)

    cheers,
      DaveK