[aur-general] Orphan Request
Please orhpan https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-sub-name/ the maintainer has been contacted to bump the pkgrel to trigger a rebuild. perl-moose and a number of other modules depend on this module, and since the initial request to bump to pkgrel was made in June and the maintainer has yet to do so, along with the fact that others are resisting the pkgrel leads me to believe the maintainer will not bump the pkgrel to force a rebuild, thus making perl-moose and everything else that depend on this to constantly fail. I already have the bumped tarball ready to submit. -- John D Jones III Perl/Javascript/Systemd Zealot unixgeek1972@gmail.com http://www.zoelife4u.org/
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 15:30:28 -0600 From: unixgeek1972@gmail.com To: aur-general@archlinux.org Subject: [aur-general] Orphan Request
Please orhpan https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-sub-name/ the maintainer has been contacted to bump the pkgrel to trigger a rebuild. perl-moose and a number of other modules depend on this module, and since the initial request to bump to pkgrel was made in June and the maintainer has yet to do so, along with the fact that others are resisting the pkgrel leads me to believe the maintainer will not bump the pkgrel to force a rebuild, thus making perl-moose and everything else that depend on this to constantly fail. I already have the bumped tarball ready to submit. -- John D Jones III Perl/Javascript/Systemd Zealot unixgeek1972@gmail.com http://www.zoelife4u.org/
This doesn't sound like a good reason to orphan a package. In the AUR, people do their own rebuilds, a pkgrel bump might be nice for those running automated systems like yaourt, but it's not required.
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 5:30 PM, John D Jones III
Please orhpan https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-sub-name/ the maintainer has been contacted to bump the pkgrel to trigger a rebuild. perl-moose and a number of other modules depend on this module, and since the initial request to bump to pkgrel was made in June and the maintainer has yet to do so, along with the fact that others are resisting the pkgrel leads me to believe the maintainer will not bump the pkgrel to force a rebuild, thus making perl-moose and everything else that depend on this to constantly fail. I already have the bumped tarball ready to submit. -- John D Jones III Perl/Javascript/Systemd Zealot unixgeek1972@gmail.com http://www.zoelife4u.org/
Users are responsible for rebuilding local packages when their hard dependencies are updated. The `pkgrel` in an AUR package doesn't correspond to a specific build like the `pkgrel` of binary packages in the repositories. Bumping the `pkgrel` would definitely annoy people who had already rebuilt it.
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Daniel Micay
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Doug Newgard
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John D Jones III