Simpler sounds nice, but I'm not so sure about the "uses ffmpeg instead" bit -- perhaps there should be two packages if such a choice has to be made? -Andrei "Garoth" Thorp On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Paride Legovini <legovini@spiro.fisica.unipd.it> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 03:47:48PM +0000, Angel Velásquez wrote:
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Paride Legovini <legovini@spiro.fisica.unipd.it> wrote:
I was willing to maintain a package in aur for Gnash, the GNU SWF player. I published it today, but it has been removed without any warning. Can I have en explanation for this?
I know the same package is already in extra/, but it's orphan and outdated.
Technically is prohibited duplicate packages, *even if yours is updated than one existent on repos*
Thank you for the explanation, I thought that orphan packages could be an exception to this rule.
Unfortunately, you should wait for a while until a Dev decides to adopt and update it, I guess you can ask on this list if some dev can drop this package from extra and move it to unsupported, then you will be able to maintain it.. (but eventually this doesn't happen, being frankly)
Then I do it now :) I'm willing to maintain it, I hope I can help.
Aditionally you can add the PKGBUILD and maybe, some dev can update the package and maybe he will use your PKGBUILD or part of them..
I'm attaching the PKGBUILD. It's different from the PKGBUILD of the package in extra/ (simpler, uses ffmpeg instead of gstreamer, ...).
So, the TU or Dev who deleted your package should (just for being nice) sent you an e-mail giving you details about why your your package was removed.
I hope so. Thank you, pl