Oops. I should have checked the package maintainer list before encouraging you, Stuart.
It looks like the maintainer for cabextract is still active. I assume he won't mind relinquishing maintainership to the person who actually wrote the program. But I'd like to get his ok before going further. I actually went as far as uploading this file before checking to see who "used to" maintain it. I did make one change: The new package relies on libgcc so I added a libgcc1 dependency to the setup.hint. If I get Jari's ok, I'll move the package to cygwin's release directory and, after I have sent an "uploaded" message here, you can then send an announcement to cygwin-announce patterned after what you see here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2010-07/ Thanks for offering to do this. It is much appreciated. cgf