[aur-general] Duplicate Package Names

[Ronald van Haren]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Not much we can do about this in AUR. I wonder why users are not
>> supposed to file bug reports for outdated packages. I think it would
>> actually help people gauge how important certain packages are.
>>
>> It would:
>>  - be globally readable and writable.
>>  - allow users to post updated PKGBUILDs.
>>  - allow developers to provide comments on why packages are out of date
>>  - help ensure that out of date notices don't get lost in the
>>   maintainer's mountain of other email, or wherever they go.
> I am in favor of this. Or maybe instead of having people report it in
> that manner, have archweb automatically file a bug report when a user
> marks it out of date.
>

why? The maintainer gets automatically notified when a package is
flagged out of date. If no maintainer is set a message is send to the
arch-dev mailing list.
IMHO it would be really annoying to clutter the bugtracker with such reports.

Ronald