Re: [aur-general] Policy on abandoned projects?

-- -Erik "For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." --Carl Sagan On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 05:14:15PM -0500, Ranguvar wrote:

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On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 15:26, Erik Johnson wrote:

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What is the policy with regard to projects that appear to have been abandoned? For instance, no matter what distribution I run, I find myself compiling spellutils for its excellent "newsbody" program, which I use in mutt to feed aspell only the body of the message instead of the full message (including quoted replies, headers, etc). However, for some time now the homepage of this project has been defunct, and the developer has been unreachable. The project does not have a sourceforge/github/etc location from which the source code can be retrieved, I was only able to find the source code myself thanks to a couple different source code archives, which I am not sure if I can rely on 100% to keep the source available.

What can I do to get this project into the AUR? I have no problem writing a PKGBUILD, I just need to find an acceptable way of making the source available, and I'm not sure if there's a protocol for this that AUR package maintainers typically follow.

Many thanks,

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-Erik

"For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." --Carl Sagan

Personally, I would say that for an AUR package, a < 100% reliable source is fine.

However, what I've done for high-demand packages (like my bin32-wine when [extra] does not update quickly), is to talk to people and find someone who would be kind enough to host.

Actually though, I think www.omploader.org works for PKGBUILDs. If it does, it is both fast and reliable.

Thanks. I'm working on the PKGBUILD right now. Is it necessary to include packages which are part of base or base-devel as makedepends? I didn't see any information about this in the PKGBUILD manpage.

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