On 9/23/10, Heiko Baums <lists@baums-on-web.de> wrote:
I didn't say that you're asking everybody adopting it And I didn't say you did.
but you ask to orphaning it if someone else already has adopted it because it was orphaned. No, I only asked a maintainer who wasn't so fast with updating the package as I was.
And "bumping" the package is the maintainer's job. So if you orphan it you tell the people: "Please take it if you want." If someone else takes it he usually wants to maintain it and does it. And if he doesn't update it fast enough in your opinion then you should have kept the package and should have maintained it by yourself. That's the point. And it's a good point except for the part where this is the first time this thing happened. Of course, I'm not going to maintain the package as an actual _maintainer_ - so that doesn't really matter.
And the maintainer sometimes could have to do something else than just updating the package every second day, just because you are too impatient. Sure, but not with all maintainers. Some do have the time but still won't update their packages. I hope this is not one of those cases.
Otherwise I would suggest you to download the package to /var/abs/local and maintain it by yourself locally on your system. Then you can update it as often as possible. Actually I don't even use the package. I just like to update it to others.
And why did you orphan this package if you want to maintain it by yourself after all? I do and I don't :).
Regularly updating a package is that which is called maintaining a package. You have orphaned the package, so you don't want to maintain it, so you don't want to regularly update the package, so live with it. You had the chance to maintain it, because you didn't need to orphan the package. It was your choice. Actually, in AUR I did a 4 months stretch of doing exactly this with my packages. Why? So that anybody could update my package when I would was unable to. It never meant I would not want to maintain my packages. That wasn't exactly what I was doing with this package but still, when _I_ just bump a package it does _not_ necessarily mean I don't want to regularly update it since I disowned as soon as I did it.
Good thing, if the users don't care about having the latest versions all the time. They are the ones who need to "live with" it.
It means both. It says clearly to either using Pastebin or to send it to the maintainer by e-mail. Which doesn't mean only e-mail and Pastebin can be used. They don't need to list and think of every possible option to upload the PKGBUILD. It's enough when people get the main idea.
I wouldn't download and review such a package if someone would send me such a link in my comments. Are _you_ the maintainer of this package :)?
And you shouldn't always upload a new, updated package somewhere and put the link to it to the AUR comments. You can assume that the maintainer knows how to update his package. Sure. I just like making things easy.
You really should decide whether you want to maintain a package or not. Not in the sense you are thinking of. Something we both agree on :).
And you should only send an orphan request if you really want to maintain a package and keep maintaining it. That's a little ambiguous but generally speaking you are right.
So to wrap this all up, I would just like to have an active maintainer for that package but it's not something I really "need" since I don't even use the package. Thanks for your time, Det