Hi again
Maybe I missed (and I cannot find in the archives) the aur-general discussion where the maintainers would abandon their packages in favour of yours, agreeing to the merge, so please send us a link where I can see the whole discussion.
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2015-February/030300.html https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2015-February/030301.html https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2015-February/030303.html https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2015-February/030309.html https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2015-February/030310.html
Real names don't help too much to understand the packages ownerships but actually on that thread apart those of yours the only messages were from Gordian Edenhofer and Michele Mocciola and both of them don't seem to me neither Andrew Fischer nor jedbrown. Forgive me but there's no point in that thread that let us think that any of the packagers agree with the merge.
There were two more replies though, which (due to reasons that are beyond my understanding) were not archived. Either their authors or other recipients can confirm:
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1) Andrew Fischer: I'm not a scotch packager so Ill let others comment on the gory details. But from the openfoam standpoint this sounds like a great idea. I would definitely be onboard.
@Andrew Fischer If you want to ease the merge, please update your openfoam package to use the scotch package, obviously after checking that scotch really provides the proper dependencies.
2) Jed Brown:
You are right :-) ( i hadn't yet discovered the real power of "provides")
Seems you got a little overzealous because your package is providing both ptscotch-mpich2 (a package that doesn't exist) and ptscotch-openmpi.
@Jed Brown do you agree in merging (in other words, to delete) the package ptscotch-openmpi into the scotch package? @George Eleftheriou I don't know how scotch works (and please, as maintainer, don't force us to understand the internal dependencies between packages) but I must repeat what I wrote you before: settle with the maintainers this merge and after that file a new merge request 1) Ask to jedbrown to let us know that he will not maintain anymore the ptscotch-openmpi package (or better adopt it yourself) 2) Ask to kragacles to update his package to depend on scotch package (or whatever else you want) instead of ptscotch-openmpi (which will be deleted after this merge). Regards -- Fabio Castelli aka Muflone