[aur-general] Moving xfce4-*-svn (was: xfce4-*-svn and others xfce packages)

[JJDaNiMoTh]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:51:19 +0100
JJDaNiMoTh <jjdanimoth at gmail.com> wrote:

Long long quote here:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:58:15 -0700
> Tobias Kieslich <tobias at justdreams.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Shaika-Dzari wrote:
> > 
> > > Le 19 mars 2008, Allan McRae a écrit :
> > > > BaSh wrote:
> > > > > Hi ML,
> > > > > there are many orphans packages into community repository and I think
> > > > > who xfce-svn would have to be moved to unsupported.
> [cut]
> > > > Weren't we trying to convince someone to join as a TU to maintain the 
> > > > xfce4-svn packages?  Does anybody know if there was a response about that?
> > > 
> > > I don't know if this is a good ideas but maybe someone could make a post on the forum.
> > > There a lot of xfce users and someone may be interrested to adopt and support it.
> > 
> > I'm the xfce4 extra maintainer and from my experience the xfce4 stuff
> > goes in waves. Whe the development at upstream gets upt o speed again
> > for 4.6 ther will be people that who want the 4.6 svn packages until
> > there are beta tarballs available. I know have them lingering around is
> > an annoyance but believe me, someone will come along and pick them up.
> > It is okay to mve it to unsupported for the moment but please don't get
> > rid of them as it will be way much work for whoever to recreate them.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 	-T
> > 
> 
> My two cents? 
> -svn, -git or -cvs packages are allowed to stay in community _only_ if
> it is the main way to get them ( like fusion-icon ). And the best thing
> to do is download the snapshot, targz it and upload on some private
> space, and use it for source ( like thing I do with xgl ), not to use
> directly svn or git or cvs in the build function.
> 
> Fortunately, we're not forced to follow users; it is suggested, right,
> but users have a quick way to get xfce-svn: using makepkg themselves!
> And users could set-up their personal repo, to share the packages, like
> ( fortunately they do ) repo with kdemod, kde4, ... , compiz-git, ...,
> kde-svn and many others.
> 
> Finally, instead of following users in the fog of -svn packages, we
> MUST focus our forces to keep in sync community-64.
> 
> Anyway, thanks to wizzo which has maintained it very well; if anyone
> want take all xfce-svn packages, they will go in unsupported.
> 

Any reply, so I'm proud ( really ) to move these svn things to 
unsupported.
If you wish maintain them in community, let send me an
email IMMEDIATELY.

Thanks.

-- 
JJDaNiMoTh - ArchLinux Trusted User
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