Re: [ITA] bzip2-1.0.8 (updated with pkg-config support)

On 14/06/2025 16:12, Carlo B. via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> bzip2-1.0.8 does not include support for pkg-config, but all major
> linux distributions included it, by providing the script directly to
> the package.
> See for example the sources of that package for arch linux:
> 
> https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/bzip2
> 
> I did a similar thing, by adding a bzip2.pc.in, which will be used by
> the cygport script for generating the bzip2.pc file.
> While I was on the topic, I also improved a bit the script, by adding
> the information about the license.
> I hope that the maintainer of the BZip2 package for CYGWIN will find it useful.

Thanks for this!

  Unfortunately, our bzip2 maintainer doesn't seem to be active at the 
moment.
(I've sent him a (hopefully polite) email asking if he intends to return).

In the meantime, I'll look into applying your patch and rebuilding this 
package, but... well, having the project depend on me to do this every 
time isn't very reliable and doesn't scale well...


As an aside, can you mark mails like this with [PATCH bzip2], or 
something similar? [ITP] specifically means that you are offering a new 
package (See [1]).

[1] https://cygwin.com/acronyms/