[aur-general] python-pyfits in AUR/unsupported

Ronald van Haren pressh at gmail.com
Tue May 6 15:56:16 EDT 2008


On 5/6/08, Mike Ressler <mike.ressler at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> The python-pyfits package is listed as an orphan and has been flagged
>  as out of date. Bringing it up to date is relatively trivial - anyone
>  mind if I have a go at it? It is useful to me and I don't want to see
>  it die.
>
>  By way if introduction since this is my first post, I've been using
>  Linux for 16 years (yes, since 1992), and Arch for about 6 months.
>  Though it took me a long time to find it, Arch just suits me. This
>  will be my first try at contributing something to Arch; since I didn't
>  see any specific protocols for updating someone else's (or orphan)
>  packages in the AUR User Guide, I thought I'd check here first.
>
>  Mike
>
>
>  --
>  mike.ressler at alum.mit.edu
>
>
Hi!

Welcome!
Yes, you are free to adopt any packages in unsupported and keep them
up to date. Just create a user via the AUR webinterface and start
contributing :)

Ronald




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