[aur-general] Policy on abandoned projects?
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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On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 15:26, Erik Johnson palehose@gmail.com wrote:
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.
-- Ranguvar [Devin Cofer]
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On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 17:46, Erik Johnson palehose@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Include [base] packages only if you want to (assumed you have them), and same for [base-deve] in makedepends -- if a [base-devel] is a full dep, though, include it there.
-- Ranguvar [Devin Cofer]
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Erik Johnson palehose@gmail.com wrote:
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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
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 palehose@gmail.com wrote:
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,
--
-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.
no
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Ranguvar ranguvar@archlinux.us wrote:
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.
Let me know if you would like a permanent host for the source code tarball. I can host it on http://cinderwick.ca somewhere for ya...
If anyone needs hosting for a popular package that has gone under, feel free to let me know. I'm already hosting a few, don't mind adding more to the list.
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Thayer Williams thayerw@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Ranguvar ranguvar@archlinux.us wrote:
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.
Let me know if you would like a permanent host for the source code tarball. I can host it on http://cinderwick.ca somewhere for ya...
Thanks to both of you. For now I am using omploader as was suggested previously, if I have trouble with it then I will contact one of you.
I submitted the package to the AUR a few hours ago, it can be found here:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33746
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Eric Bélanger
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Erik Johnson
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Ranguvar
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Thayer Williams