[aur-general] Information request about libnss-mysql
Hello,
Being not very aware of the organisation of the AUR, I'm sending you a little request for information about a package : libnss-mysql [1]. According to the AUR, this package is an orphan. Since it does not have any maintainer to perform upstream updates, it is dead, as one could expect.
I can see it was last updated on 2012-05-15. However, the last update from upstream dates back to 2005/2006. Is there any way I could know who was maintaining this package before it became an orphan ?
Thanks, JWHS.
Old accounts (older than either 500 days or two years, not sure which) were recently purged. [1] libnss-mysql was last updated in May 2012, which would probably explain why the submitter, maintainer and packager is listed as "None."
I'll leave it up to the TUs to confirm this hypothesis and let you know whether there's still any way to get that account info.
— Jeremy "Ichimonji10" Audet
[1a] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2014-January/027030.html [1b] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2014-February/027039.htm...
Googled it out of curiosity... google has a cache of that page (in French!). Hope it's useful somehow:
---- Détails du paquet: libnss-mysql 1.5-2
Description: Store your UNIX user accounts in MySQL Lien: http://libnss-mysql.sourceforge.net/ Catégorie: lib Licence: GPL Contributeur: Aucun Mainteneur: Aucun Votes: 5 Première soumission: 2007-11-04 01:55 Dernière mise à jour: 2012-05-15 10:43
Dépendances (1)
mysql>=5.0.15
Sources
http://sourceforge.net/projects/libnss-mysql/files/libnss-mysql/1.5/libnss-m... ----
On 29 June 2014 17:44, Jeremy Audet ichimonji10@gmail.com wrote:
Old accounts (older than either 500 days or two years, not sure which) were recently purged. [1] libnss-mysql was last updated in May 2012, which would probably explain why the submitter, maintainer and packager is listed as "None."
I'll leave it up to the TUs to confirm this hypothesis and let you know whether there's still any way to get that account info.
— Jeremy "Ichimonji10" Audet
[1a] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2014-January/027030.html [1b] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2014-February/027039.htm...
Am 29.06.2014 19:14, schrieb Steven Honeyman:
Googled it out of curiosity... google has a cache of that page (in French!). Hope it's useful somehow:
'Aucun' means it is an orphaned package in french.
On 29 June 2014 17:44, Jeremy Audet ichimonji10@gmail.com wrote:
Old accounts (older than either 500 days or two years, not sure which) were recently purged. [1] libnss-mysql was last updated in May 2012, which would probably explain why the submitter, maintainer and packager is listed as "None."
The package was orphaned at that time (at least it's not on my list[1]).
Am 29.06.2014 15:55, schrieb John WH Smith:> Hello,
I can see it was last updated on 2012-05-15. However, the last update from upstream dates back to 2005/2006. Is there any way I could know who was maintaining this package before it became an orphan ?
The aur-mirror[2] reveals it was moved from the repositories to the AUR before 2011 and maintained by Judd Vinet and Dale Blount back in 2006. Both left Arch[3] some time ago. The comment by 'mortzu' on the package page corresponds to that commit[4], where the maintainer information were stripped. After that, somebody modernized the package[5], however, who that did is lost. I hope this helps as well. Now a little question: Why do you want to know who maintained it? There are no patches or anything.
best regards, carstene1ns
[1]: http://arch.carsten-teibes.de/aur-stuff/aur-cleanup-02-2014/packages_to_orph... [2]: http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/commit/libnss-mysql/PKGBUILD?id=92a57... [3]: https://www.archlinux.org/fellows/ [4]: http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/commit/libnss-mysql/PKGBUILD?id=1811e... [5]: http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/commit/libnss-mysql/PKGBUILD?id=50330...
On 29/06/14 19:08, carstene1ns wrote:
Am 29.06.2014 15:55, schrieb John WH Smith:> Hel The aur-mirror[2] reveals it was moved from the repositories to the AUR before 2011 and maintained by Judd Vinet and Dale Blount back in 2006. Both left Arch[3] some time ago. The comment by 'mortzu' on the package page corresponds to that commit[4], where the maintainer information were stripped. After that, somebody modernized the package[5], however, who that did is lost. I hope this helps as well. Now a little question: Why do you want to know who maintained it? There are no patches or anything.
best regards, carstene1ns
I am currently looking for a solution to store UNIX users in a MySQL database (virtual hosting). The NSS module for MySQL got my attention, yet it has no active community/team around it.
When I saw that the Arch package had been updated more recently, I thought someone was working on it again. Being a regular Arch user myself, the AUR seemed to me like a good place to look for movement. To be honest, I am very surprised that both libnss-mysql and nss-mysql are such ghosts...
Thank you for your answers, I have the information I needed! JWHS.
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 7:38 PM, John WH Smith jwhsmith@englandmail.com wrote:
On 29/06/14 19:08, carstene1ns wrote:
Am 29.06.2014 15:55, schrieb John WH Smith:> Hel The aur-mirror[2] reveals it was moved from the repositories to the AUR before 2011 and maintained by Judd Vinet and Dale Blount back in 2006. Both left Arch[3] some time ago. The comment by 'mortzu' on the package page corresponds to that commit[4], where the maintainer information were stripped. After that, somebody modernized the package[5], however, who that did is lost. I hope this helps as well. Now a little question: Why do you want to know who maintained it? There are no patches or anything.
best regards, carstene1ns
I am currently looking for a solution to store UNIX users in a MySQL database (virtual hosting). The NSS module for MySQL got my attention, yet it has no active community/team around it.
When I saw that the Arch package had been updated more recently, I thought someone was working on it again. Being a regular Arch user myself, the AUR seemed to me like a good place to look for movement.
Seems unlikely. Most packagers on the AUR don't have much contact with upstream at all (unless they are upstream themselves).
To be honest, I am very surprised that both libnss-mysql and nss-mysql are such ghosts...
I'm really not; it's an obscure use case. MySQL isn't exactly the poster child of great databases either. There's a libnss-pgsql but it seems similarly outdated. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libnss-pgsql/
Thank you for your answers, I have the information I needed! JWHS.
participants (5)
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carstene1ns
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Jeremy Audet
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Jerome Leclanche
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John WH Smith
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Steven Honeyman