On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera <hugo@osvaldobarrera.com.ar> wrote:
One of the problems with the new package in [community], is that it's build configuration differs SO MUCH from the defaults (and my own package), that their settings are incompatible. I belive this goes against the Arch way, which is to stay as close as possible to upstream. Dude. Against the Arch way... you are harsh.
There is NO patch[1]. Only configure options (provided by upstream).
Also, the one in [community] has explicit flags that actually reduce security (for what reason, I wonder?). Please open a bug report[2] and explain where I made a mistake. I'll be pleased to fix it.
At first, I though I'd contact the author, but I couldn't find out how. The PKGBUILD does not include the maintainer's email, and he's not listed as a TU or Dev. You can find me on the TU page[3] and details about opensmtpd in the package page[4] (hint: Maintainer field).
Finally, I'm a bit surprised as to how this happened. I planned to propose to move my own package from AUR to [community] at some point, but not yet, since it only has 7 votes (way less than what the wiki describes neccesary).
Be delighted with this move. You will not have to maintain it yourself anymore. No need to thanks TUs and Developers for their work. It's free as beer.
Secondly, I'm confused as to how this is done. If there's a package in AUR, isn't that moved into [community] instead of writing a brand new one? I'm sorry, I doesn't took your package. I was not "inspired" by what you do and I started a new one from scratch. No offense!
Please don't take this as a rant of "You broke my email setup!", but rather as a "Hey, this isn't very transpart to the community; how do these thing happen? How do I contact the maintainer? What was the procedure to get this package into [community]? Is there any way I can participate in it's maintenence?" Transpart?
You can participate by suggesting new behaviour / stuff into our bug report system[2]. By offering your help to upstream developper. Or if you want helps Archlinux on more than one package, you can start walk the path to become a TU. Cheers, [1] https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=... [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/ [3] https://www.archlinux.org/trustedusers/ [4] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/opensmtpd/ -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://www.seblu.net GPG: 0x2072D77A