On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:38:17PM -0500, Eli Schwartz wrote:

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Michael Beasley wrote:

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I've taken some time to make updated PKGBUILDS and related scripts for a few packages that are marked as "Maintainer: Orphaned" and haven't been updated in a while. How would I go about submitting or getting these updated approved for testing and possibly applying for maintainership?

The wiki explicitly states not to upload to the AUR if any version exists in the official package database, so I figured it would be best to ask before I get started off on the wrong foot.

Thanks all, Michael Beasley -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2

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If the package is in the repositories, just flag them as out of date. They should get updated by the Arch maintainers. If they are in the AUR, file an orphan request (unless they are already orphaned), then adopt them from their page on the AUR. Once you are the maintainer, you can then update them freely.

-- Eli Schwartz

Sounds great, I guess I'll send an email to the last packagers; some of them have flag dates from months ago. Thanks, Michael Beasley

On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 07:11:23 +0000 (UTC) bob wrote:

Great work, Michael! From: Michael Beasley To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 5:50 AM Subject: Re: [arch-general] AUR, ABS and outdated/orphaned packages

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:38:17PM -0500, Eli Schwartz wrote:

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On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Michael Beasley wrote:

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I've taken some time to make updated PKGBUILDS and related scripts for a few packages that are marked as "Maintainer: Orphaned" and haven't been updated in a while.  How would I go about submitting or getting these updated approved for testing and possibly applying for maintainership?

The wiki explicitly states not to upload to the AUR if any version exists in the official package database, so I figured it would be best to ask before I get started off on the wrong foot.

Thanks all, Michael Beasley -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2

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If the package is in the repositories, just flag them as out of date. They should get updated by the Arch maintainers. If they are in the AUR, file an orphan request (unless they are already orphaned), then adopt them from their page on the AUR. Once you are the maintainer, you can then update them freely.

-- Eli Schwartz

Sounds great, I guess I'll send an email to the last packagers; some of them have flag dates from months ago.

Thanks, Michael Beasley

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