If nothing has been done since June, what is the urge? You can write an email and wait one more week. I also agree with the fact that not everyone do read the forum. I personally don't. -- Cedric Girard Sent from my phone, sorry for the top-posting. Le 24 nov. 2010 18:20, "Stefan Husmann" <stefan-husmann@t-online.de> a écrit :
Am 24.11.2010 13:55, schrieb Lukas Fleischer:
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 02:37:52PM +0200, H.Gökhan SARI wrote:
Main burg package (which is burg-bzr, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33382) is not orphaned and not updated since July 16, although package is flagged as out-of-date and a better PKGBUILD is suggested in comments. And I think it's nonsense adopting burg-themes (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38066) due to it's containing themes only not working without main burg package.
If an AUR package is broken, you should always adhere to following procedure:
* Tell the maintainer to fix the package using AUR comments or just send him a mail. I prefer AUR comments since they can be reviewed and discussed by others easily. You might also nopaste a patch and/or fixed PKGBUILD.
* Wait for the maintainer to fix the package.
* If he doesn't reply/react for some time, send him a mail asking him to update the package or orphan it if he doesn't want to maintain it anymore.
* If he doesn't reply to that mail for another week, send a mail to aur-general asking the TUs to disown the package.
* Never create duplicate packages with "-fixed", "-working", "-better" suffixes.
I think we should delete the "-fixed" packages and disown burg-bzr if the maintainer doesn't want to maintain it anymore, so someone can adopt and fix the packages with correct namings. I'll send x-demon a mail.
Hello,
basically Lukas is right with this procedure. But in this case there is a forum thread since June in which the author of burg-bzr did not take part.
For me that is reason enough to think that he or she is gone. So I orphaned burg-bzr. The others were already orphaned. The packageges named -fixed will be deleted soon. I made some AUR comments and a forum post telling so.
Regards Stefan