Such tracking is usually done within the MAKEPKG file, e.g. [1]. It is indeed better practice but not mandatory. As long as we can contact the current maintainer, why the need of previous maintainer? Second it doesn't really matter who owns the package. We all contribute to Arch together and benefits from everyone's work as a whole. I understand your willingness to own your baby, but we're a community. As long as I know the package is well maintained, it doesn't make a big difference wether it's him or you. You can always contact the person and deal something with them if it can help you sleep better. Lastly, you can already pick any package orphaned and give it some love. AUR doesn't have (and I don't think it will ever have) any kind of automated system for that. That's why we are here, also it helps keep an eye on what's going on and take the good decisions. Please keep in mind I don't have the truth, I'm nowhere near TU rank here. I'm just speaking common sense. Alex. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ac/ace/PKGBUILD On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Marcin 'sirmacik' Karpezo < marcin@karpezo.pl> wrote:
Hi there!
Few days ago I’ve installed Archlinux on my laptop again. One of the first changes I’ve noticed in my *.archlinux.org accounts was loosing all packages I was maintaining in AUR.
It’s completely understandable because I was the one to say in one of my comments that I hope to never use Arch again… but here I am having Arch on the second partition, next to Gentoo.
The idea is to add some tracking of AUR package maintainers (I’m not sure if there isn’t some system like this first part already). If they have more than some number of packages out of date and they haven’t been logged in some time lets orphan their packages. This is how it is working now but manually.
The next step is retrieval. If our maintainer logged in again and he’s pushing some new packages to AUR lets bring him his packages. But not all, only those which are still orphaned.
Such automation will be IMO a big improvement to the whole system. Just an idea, but if anyone is interested in implementing it I’ll be glad to help.
-- Regards Marcin 'sirmacik' Karpezo http://sirmacik.net