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Re: Why /dev/kmsg was deleted from cygwin1.dll in git?


Hi Corinna,

On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 12:54:20 +0200
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Inetutils is an orphaned package (and rightfully so).
> 
> If you think you need inetutils and especially syslogd, I suggest
> to take over maintainance of that package and tweak syslogd so it
> doesn't require /dev/kmsg anymore.

Are the following three packages still orphaned?
* inetutils
* rsh
* tcp_wrappers

If so, may I apply for a maintainer of these packages? Honestly, I
am not sure what the maintainer tasks are. I appreciate if you let
me know how I can learn about that.

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>

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