Partha Chowdhury wrote:
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:58:17PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
Partha Chowdhury wrote:
i have been using archlinux for about 3 months.I have switched from fedora to arch due to its simplicity. i had reported a bug http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15199?string=xzgv&project=1&type[0]=&sev[0]=&pri[0]=&due[0]=&reported[0]=&cat[0]=&status[0]=open&percent[0]=&opened=&dev=&closed=&duedatefrom=&duedateto=&changedfrom=&changedto=&openedfrom=&openedto=&closedfrom=&closedto= when i first started using arch.Recently it has been fixed and i have tested and reported it.
However it seems that xzgv package is currently orphaned as this page shows http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/xzgv/ so is rtorrent and libtorrent.They have been marked out-of-date for a while now.
is another trusted user or developer will be maintaining the packages in the future ?
i want to help and i want to maintain the above packages if someone else has not decided already. so where do i apply and how do i start ?
Note that all community packages are orphans at the moment due to the backend transition that is ongoing.
I notice that xzgv 0.9.1 is now released. If you tell me whether updated version needs the patch provided in the bug report, I will do the update.
Allan
no , xzgv 0.9.1 does not need the patch. it is for xzgv-0.9 release.simply updating the xzgv package will solve it.
xzgv is now updated.
About the backend transition - does that mean maintainers of the packages in the community repo cannot update their packages at the moment or is there some other problem ?
I was just all packages are listed as orphans. The maintainers can still update their packages.
Should i email the maintainers personally to make a request to update ?
They probably already know. Sending updated PKGBUILDs to either the maintainer (should be listed in the current PKGBUILD) or the aur-general list might help speed things up. Allan