Hello! I tried looking for a way of contacting you via email but it is not publicly listed on AUR, and your homepage (https://techcable.net/) returns a standard 404 nginx page. Although you're right, I could've tried the comments section, but I generally haven't seen many people get answered there before (on other packages). I just recently took up an interest in helping out on AUR. I can see that the package works, however the version is not the same as the one it pulls from the [Zig download JSON](https://ziglang.org/download/index.json), and if I try just running an update, it doesn't automatically try and pull the latest version, because the version on AUR hasn't changed. Leading some people to have to try and reinstall the package so it updates just fine. I had an interest in honestly just using the same PKGBUILD but just auto-updating the pkgver by querying the zigland download json at least daily or so. Therefore eliminating that problem. However I understand if that isn't viable, or you're not comfortable with that. I guess my request can be cancelled. Thank you for reaching out though! And thanks for adding me as a maintainer. Thanks in advance, Guilherme Junckesme@junckes.dev ------- Original Message ------- On Saturday, September 16th, 2023 at 5:38 AM, Techcable <techcable@techcable.net> wrote:

Hi junkes,

I am the current maintainer of this package.

This package is automatically updated and usually does not require manual intervention. Right now I can successfully run `makepkg` on my machine without needing to modify anything.

This auto-updating is similar to "VCS packages" (See the corresponding [wiki page](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VCS_package_guidelines)). Although this auto updating scheme usually works quite well, it frequently confuses users who mark the package as out of date. This is especially true since it doesn't have the -git or -cvs ending usually used by VCS packages.

Do you mind me asking what issues specifically you are currently having with the package? Everything works fine on my laptop except some of the documentation (and that can be viewed online).

Generally speaking I would prefer you post publicly in the comments or email me privately before making an AUR orphan request. As far as I am concerned, I am still maintaining this package (though maybe not responding as frequently as I used to).

However, I appreciate the offer to share maintenance. Although I don't see any AUR packages, your GitHub seems to show you have a good deal of Linux experience.

I have added you as a maintainer just in case you are able to help. Please let me know before making any major changes.

In case it helps, I have also explicitly bumped the pkgver in the PKBGBUILD. Although the package usually auto-updates fine, this has sometimes helped to resolve user issues in the past.

— Techcable (Nicholas)

Sep 15, 2023 1:52:24 PM notify@aur.archlinux.org:

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junckes [1] filed an orphan request for zig-dev-bin [2]:

I'd like for this package to be orphaned as I have an interest in maintaining it, and keeping said package up to date :)

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/junckes/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/zig-dev-bin/