[aur-general] Package naming where sources are not official
Hi all, I adopted https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/trayfreq/ a while ago to nurture it back into health after seeing that it was trying to use outdated files in /proc/ amongst other fatal bugs. The owners haven't updated their sourceforge in a while (five years), so decided to have a hack at rewriting it myself to work with modern installations. That's enough background, it's mostly working now, but the PKGBUILD is pointing to my source code. Question: Should I have the aur package renamed to account for the fact it's not using the 'true', 'official' sources even though those haven't worked for years? Cheers for your opinions. -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
On 27-03-14 10:24, David Phillips wrote:
Hi all, I adopted https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/trayfreq/ a while ago to nurture it back into health after seeing that it was trying to use outdated files in /proc/ amongst other fatal bugs. The owners haven't updated their sourceforge in a while (five years), so decided to have a hack at rewriting it myself to work with modern installations. That's enough background, it's mostly working now, but the PKGBUILD is pointing to my source code.
Question: Should I have the aur package renamed to account for the fact it's not using the 'true', 'official' sources even though those haven't worked for years?
Cheers for your opinions.
David, it does sound like you forked trayfreq . If that's correct, you should give your project another name and then the aur package would ofcourse also need to change. There may be an alternative however : contact dzs6w3 & starfall87 ,the people that created trayfreq, and team up with them ? You can contact them through their sourceforge profile pages : http://sourceforge.net/u/dzs6w3/profile/ http://sourceforge.net/u/starfall87/profile/ Lone_Wolf
Ahh of course. (I'm new to developing for the public so wasn't quite
sure.) I'll take your suggestion and contact the devs even though I
have my doubts.
Cheers for the clarification.
On 28/03/2014, LoneVVolf
On 27-03-14 10:24, David Phillips wrote:
Hi all, I adopted https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/trayfreq/ a while ago to nurture it back into health after seeing that it was trying to use outdated files in /proc/ amongst other fatal bugs. The owners haven't updated their sourceforge in a while (five years), so decided to have a hack at rewriting it myself to work with modern installations. That's enough background, it's mostly working now, but the PKGBUILD is pointing to my source code.
Question: Should I have the aur package renamed to account for the fact it's not using the 'true', 'official' sources even though those haven't worked for years?
Cheers for your opinions.
David, it does sound like you forked trayfreq . If that's correct, you should give your project another name and then the aur package would ofcourse also need to change.
There may be an alternative however : contact dzs6w3 & starfall87 ,the people that created trayfreq, and team up with them ?
You can contact them through their sourceforge profile pages : http://sourceforge.net/u/dzs6w3/profile/ http://sourceforge.net/u/starfall87/profile/
Lone_Wolf
-- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
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