[aur-requests] Full deletion request for libinput-gestures
Hi, I am an Arch user and also maintain a utility called libinput-gestures at https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures which is used by quite a few people. A number of people there asked me to create an AUR package which I have now done. However, just before I got to submit the package, somebody else hacked up something which they submitted as libinput-gestures so they took the package name. I asked him to disown and remove the package which he agreed and did so within an hour or so as discussed in https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures/issues/6. However even though the package is gone from the AUR web page I find the git repo still exists on aur.archlinux.org which means he will be forever credited as the originator of the package. I know it seems picky but I would prefer to be credited as the originator, not just the maintainer. So can I ask that the repo be fully deleted? I have my version of a PKGBUILD ready to submit but it bares no relationship to whatever was there before so the git history is irrelevant. Thanks. -- Mark Blakeney.
You can just put the respective creator comment inside the PKGBUILD, since you overwrote the git repository with yours. I'm not sure that it's a smart idea to ask the AUR to lie to users, because, well, the creator of the package with that name is no longer the creator of the PKGBUILD. cheers! mar77i
Martin, Sorry, but what do you mean "since you overwrote the git repository with yours"? Note I haven't submitted anything yet to the AUR. I should also point out that he deleted the package within about 1 hour after it was first created so it never really existed and there is almost no chance that anybody ever actually downloaded it. -- Mark Blakeney. On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 5:59 PM, Martin Kühne <aur-requests@archlinux.org> wrote:
You can just put the respective creator comment inside the PKGBUILD, since you overwrote the git repository with yours. I'm not sure that it's a smart idea to ask the AUR to lie to users, because, well, the creator of the package with that name is no longer the creator of the PKGBUILD.
cheers! mar77i
On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Mark Blakeney <mark.blakeney@bullet-systems.net> wrote:
Martin,
Sorry, but what do you mean "since you overwrote the git repository with yours"? Note I haven't submitted anything yet to the AUR.
That's what you *should* do, I'm not sure why you're asking if that hasn't happened yet. Just upload the package and don't forget to create a .AURINFO file. With a new history, to go with the git repository, you'll likely be listed as the original author. The aur stores old git repositories for deleted packages so people still have access to the otherwise inaccessible data that might still be useful. cheers! mar77i
Martin, I just pushed the package and it worked! Thanks. I was expecting it would keep the submitter name from the initial commit but it correctly took my name presumably because the package had been removed. -- Mark Blakeney. On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 6:22 PM, Martin Kühne <aur-requests@archlinux.org> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Mark Blakeney <mark.blakeney@bullet-systems.net> wrote:
Martin,
Sorry, but what do you mean "since you overwrote the git repository with yours"? Note I haven't submitted anything yet to the AUR.
That's what you *should* do, I'm not sure why you're asking if that hasn't happened yet. Just upload the package and don't forget to create a .AURINFO file. With a new history, to go with the git repository, you'll likely be listed as the original author. The aur stores old git repositories for deleted packages so people still have access to the otherwise inaccessible data that might still be useful.
cheers! mar77i
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Mark Blakeney
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Martin Kühne