On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:48:19AM -0400, Zack Buhman wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 09:52:17AM -0400, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Vincent B. <vb@luminar.eu.org> wrote:
Hi,
I am the packager of aspcud and aspcud-svn, an important dependency solver for the OPAM OCaml package manager.
Two dependencies, clasp and gringo, have been already packaged in AUR,
Disowned. Adopt and keep improving it!
This is what package-hijacking looks like.
Is it? The previous maintainer has never voted, and their last action on the AUR, as far as I can tell, was June of last year. The only remaining package they have is out of date as of a month ago, in addition to clasp and gringo. I don't think there's any unwarranted "hijacking" happening here. Tangentially related, I think it would make sense to forward the unanswered email (with bounceback, if appropraite) from the current maintainer with any disown request. I think this is a simple measure to try and keep people honest in their requests. Maybe I'm just overly wary of people... d