[aur-general] poe-git maintainership
Hi, I am the author of the program poe (https://sr.ht/~strahinja/poe). When I wanted to create an AUR package for my program, I found out that someone (with the username fossdd) already made a package for my program, called poe-git. The version of the package in the AUR, however, is 0.1.alpha.r11.g4a843ea-1 and I've moved on to v1.3.3. Granted, when poe-git is installed through an AUR helper, the latest source is pulled, but the PKGBUILD doesn't use the intended command for the installation (which is now PREFIX=... ./do install, I've added respecting the PREFIX environment variable), but instead uses the install(1) program manually, so the manpage isn't installed. I would be fine with fossdd maintaining poe-git AUR package if it is kept up-to-date, but I would prefer maintaining it myself. I tried contacting fossdd today early in the morning about this, but got no response yet. I would appreciate an advice on this.
On 06/10/2021 21:45, Strahinya Radich via aur-general wrote:
I tried contacting fossdd today early in the morning about this, but got no response yet. I would appreciate an advice on this.
You might want to give them a little more time. Generally speaking, if the package is currently broken, there is no response, and there are no signs of activity on any of a maintainer's other packages, then you might file an orphan request. However, in this case fossdd has been active recently so making contact and having a little patience will be the correct approach! J
Jonathon Fernyhough via aur-general <aur-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
You might want to give them a little more time.
that makes sense to me, too. but, am i right that it would also be legitimate, and even typical, for the package author to add a "poe" package to AUR? i.e, my sense is that quite often both "foo" and "foo-git" packages co-exist in AUR. (whether they are normally maintained by the same, or by different, people, i don't know.) cheers, Greg
On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 03:11:43PM +0300, Greg Minshall via aur-general wrote:
yes.
(whether they are normally maintained by the same, or by different, people, i don't know.)
Of course, the first option is just more convenient, but the second is also absolutely normal, especially since you can always agree on the comaintaner role.
cheers, Greg
-- Sincerely, Alexander | Trusted User
On 21/10/07 03:11, Greg Minshall via aur-general wrote:
I thought I saw the package for a Go program "poe" appearing in some package search, but repeating the search now I can't find it. I found at least three packages with the same name, without an AUR package. Two are in Go: https://github.com/prodhe/poe https://github.com/godwhoa/poe and one appears to be in a mixture of languages: https://git.rhe.jp/poe.git/tree/README.md In any case, I also think that creating and maintaining the "poe" package would perhaps be the best option, as I still haven't received a reply from fossdd, so I will do that. Thank you all again.
On 21/10/07 04:26, Strahinya Radich via aur-general wrote:
It appears it wasn't a package search, but running the command: git clone ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/poe.git This fetches an existing repository with a PKGBUILD starting with: # Maintainer: Egor Kovetskiy <e.kovetskiy@gmail.com> pkgname=poe pkgver="autogenerated" pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="examine, list and fix suspicious constructs in Go source code" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') license=('GPL') makedepends=('git') depends=('go' 'gometalinter-git') I will try to contact Egor Kovetskiy to check if it would be ok to overwrite the repository, since poe isn't listed in AUR package search anyway.
That means the package has probably been deleted either by the maintainer or an admin, so it's ok to overwrite. Yash Karandikar d5c4 1cbc 071b 41b3 f235 da13 f01e 92cd 2390 f369
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Alexander Epaneshnikov
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Greg Minshall
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Jonathon Fernyhough
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Strahinya Radich
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Yash Karandikar