[aur-dev] How can I Upload a new vesion of the vidyo package to AUR?

[Fernando Monticelli]

Thanks Stefan and Florian!

Sorry for making noise in the wrong list. I' ll follow your suggestions.

    Best regards,
             Fernando

On 01/17/13 16:59, Stefan Husmann wrote:
> Am 17.01.2013 20:52, schrieb Fernando Monticelli:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Current vidyo (a CERN video conferencing tool) package in AUR doesn' 
>> t work for me. But I found a hack here 
>> (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701083#c7) which makes 
>> vidyo believes is running under ubuntu. That actually works. It s 
>> just the package in that hack is an old version of Vidyo.
>>
>> So I made up a new PKGBUILD for the latest version of vidyo. This 
>> PKGBUILD is a modification of the one currently in AUR 
>> (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vidyo/) plus the hack I found.
>>
>> In any case, I can' t upload it to AUR because vidyo belongs to 
>> another maintanier. How can I proceed? Should I ask the other 
>> maintainer to modify his PKGBUILD?
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Fernando
>>
>>
> Hello,
>
> first, you ask this pquestion on the wrong list. This list is about 
> developement of the AUR itself. aur-general would be the right list.
>
> Second, you can leave a comment in the AUR comments. You posted the 
> link already
>
> Third, you can write a mail to the maintainer. Click on the 
> maintainer's name on the AUR side of the package. If you do not hear 
> from the maintainer between fourtenn days, write a mail to aur-general 
> and ask for orphaning the package for taking it over.
>
> Thanks for you willing to contribute.
>
> Best Regards Stefan.